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Compelled To Crime: The Gender Entrapment Of Battered, Black Women
Beth Richie

Compelled To Crime: The Gender Entrapment Of Battered, Black Women

Routledge (Dec 05, 1995)
9780415911450
| Book - Paperback
200 pages | 150 x 221 mm | English
$ 41.95 | Value: $ 41.95
Dewey 362.82920899601
LC Classification HV6626.22.N7 .R53 1996
LC Control No. 95018322

Genre

  • Abuse of Women and Children

Subject

  • Women of Diverse Cultures (AWC-CL)

Plot

Tells the stories of battered African American women incarcerated in a New York City correctional facility and explores what happens when the criminal justice system is introduced as a repressive force in their lives. Details the ways in which African American women are hemmed into the corners of U.S. society by virtue of their vulnerability to men's violence, and penalized for behaviors that are proscribed by societal mores of appropriate gender roles.