Neither angels nor demons : women, crime, and victimization /
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| Author / Creator: | Ferraro, Kathleen J. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover : Published by University Press of New England, c2006. |
| Description: | xi, 327 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6221740 |
| Summary: | She is a victim of intimate partner violence, a woman who has been harmed. She is a criminal offender, a woman who has harmed others. Superficially, it seems she is two separate women. Victim and offender are binary categories used within law, social science, and public discourse to describe social experiences with a moral dimension. Such terms draw upon cultural narratives of good and bad people and have influenced scholarship, public policy, and activism. The duality of good and bad women, separated into mutually exclusive extremes of angels and demons, has helped segregate thinking about, and responses to, each group. In this groundbreaking study, Kathleen J. Ferraro exposes the limits of such thinking by exploring the link between victimization and offending from the perspective of the women charged with the crimes. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 327 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-313) and index. |
| ISBN: | 155553662X 1555536638 9781555536626 9781555536633 |
