Publisher:Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, c2006.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-313) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Blurred boundaries and the complexities of experience -- 2. Irreconcilable differences : women's encounters with the criminal processing system -- 3. Negotiating surreality -- 4. The social reproduction of women's pain -- 5. Demonic angels? : violence against abusers -- 6. Angelic demons? : crimes of complicity -- App. A. Pseudonym, race/ethnicity, charges, relationship to victim(s), and role in offense -- App. B. Abuse of drugs and alcohol -- App. C. Women who killed their husbands/partners -- App. D. Context of violence against husbands/partners -- App. E. Prior police involvement, children, work, abused as child, and parental absence -- App. F. Women who committed crimes against others -- App. G. A note on method.
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