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Social Science Criminology

Women in Trouble

Connecting Women’s Law Violation to their Histories of Abuse

by (author) Elizabeth Comack

Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Initial publish date
Jan 1996
Category
Criminology, Women's Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781895686616
    Publish Date
    Jan 1996
    List Price
    $25.00

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Description

This book addresses one of the more alarming findings to emerge about women in prison: the fact that 80 percent report histories of physical and sexual abuse.

About the author

Elizabeth Comack is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba. Comack’s work in the sociology of law and feminist criminology has been instrumental in setting the course for Canadian scholarship. She is a member of the Manitoba Research Alliance, a consortium of academics and community partners engaged in research addressing poverty in Indigenous and inner-city communities. Comack is the author or editor of 13 books, including Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization; “Indians Wear Red”: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs (co-authored with Laurie Deane, Larry Morrissette, and Jim Silver); and Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with Police.

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Editorial Reviews

“Elizabeth allows the women in this book to speak their own truth. It’s a graphic, shocking, depressing and absolutely necessary account of the connections between histories of abuse and trouble with the law.”

Karen Toole-Mitchell, Winnipeg Free Press