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While conservatives have gained control over family policy issues in the 1980s, the Left's response has been one of lassitude, even though there remains a great deal that progressives could do to break the Right's hold on family issues. There has recently been an enormous revival of interest in the role played by the family in causing crime, mostly among conservative researchers whose message is that family disorganization breeds crime, with individual blame often placed on the mother. If progressives are to be involved in formulating & implementing crime prevention policies, they too will have to focus on the family, considering the social factors that generate family problems. One way to loosen the Right's grip on family issues & simultaneously become more involved in criminal justice policy is to concentrate on women & crime. The causes of female crime are related to both poverty & the family & can therefore be addressed through more progressive family policies. The best strategy may be to focus on issues of incarcerated women. Various approaches to this issue & the dangers inherent in them are considered. Bringing the issues of women & crime to center stage would contribute to policies that could alleviate both crime & gender inequality. F. S. J. Ledgister

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Development of the Women's Prison System -- CHAPTER 1 "Much and Unfortunately Neglected": Women in Early and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prisons -- CHAPTER 2 Origins of the Women s Reformatory -- 1870-1900 -- CHAPTER 3 The Women's Reformatory Movement, 1900-1935: From Success to Decline -- CHAPTER 4 Custodial Prisons for Women, 1870-1935 83 -- PART II. The Implementation of Punishment -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 5 Conviction Offenses, Sentences, and Prisoners at Five Institutions -- CHAPTER 6 Race and Racism in State Prisons Holding Women, 1865-1935 -- CHAPTER 7 The Realization of Partial Justice: A Case Study of the Social Control of Women -- CHAPTER 8 The Third Stage: The Womens Prison System Since 1935 -- PART III. Gender and Justice -- CHAPTER 9 Sex Discrimination in the Prison System: New Responses to the Perennial Problem -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A States in the Regional Divisions -- APPENDIX B Offense Categories-Definitions -- APPENDIX C Data Collection from Registries of Prisoners: Materials and Sampling Procedures -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engagements with popular culture, encouraging them to use the everyday world as a vehicle for theorizing and understanding both crime and perceptions of criminality. The first work to bring a systematic and

A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology. What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender's brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of genetic deficits that place one at risk to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, which the Nazis and other eugenicists used to sterilize, incarcerate, and even execute thousands of supposed "born" criminals? How can we prepare for a future in which leaders may propose crime-control programs based on biology? In this second edition of The Criminal Brain, Nicole Rafter, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque describe early biological theories of crime and provide a lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology. New chapters introduce the theories of the latter part of the 20th century; apply and critically assess current biosocial and evolutionary theories, the developments in neuro-imaging, and recent progressions in fields such as epigenetics; and finally, provide a vision for the future of criminology and crime policy from a biosocial perspective. The book is a careful, critical examination of each research approach and conclusion. Both compiling and analyzing the body of scholarship devoted to understanding the criminal brain, this volume serves as a condensed, accessible, and contemporary exploration of biological theories of crime and their everyday relevance. -- Provided by publisher.