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Our Studies, Ourselves
What motivates a lifelong scholarly pursuit, and how do one's studies inform life outside the academy? Sociologists, who live in families but also study families, who go to work but also study work, who participate in communities but also try to understand communities, have an especially intimate relation to their research. Growing up poor, struggling as a woman in a male-dominated profession, participating in protests against the Vietnam War; facts of life influence research agendas, individual understandings of the world, and ultimately the shape of the discipline as a whole. Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz asked twenty-two of America's most prominent sociologists to reflect upon how thei...
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Scarlet Ribbons
Memoirs of Everyday Miracles depicts encounters with angels and miraculous answers to prayer in this uplifting memoir of a womans dedication to God and her family. A caregiver at the age of nine for her dying mother, Bonnie makes a promise to God after receiving a miracle. The answered prayer leaves her with a deep faith and a firm belief: with God, all things are possible. Bonnie grows up to be a singer/ songwriter, and she and her mother set out to find fame in the music business. But stardom eludes Bonnie until she marries a man in Phoenix, Arizona, and finds success when she becomes the featured vocalist at his nightclub. When her mother and brothers health begin to fail, Bonnie juggles ...
Women and the Criminal Justice System
This text examines the various roles of women in the criminal justice system against a social context in which women are oppressed. The text examines the following three roles of women in criminal justice: *Women as victims of crimes *Women as criminals convicted and sentenced for crimes *Women as workers in various agencies in the criminal justice system This text emphasizes content on gender and ethnic diversity and on the strengths of oppressed people, especially women of color. A wide range of issues are covered, including: the rate of early childhood sexual abuse, victimization in female inmates, priest abuse of girls, female inmate rape by male prison guard, and obstacles for women law...
The Criminal Justice System and Women
"The book looks at the underlying social, economic, racial, and cultural conditions of society and how they impact on women throughout society and the criminal justice system."--Publisher's description.
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