Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women

by Beth Richie and Beth E. Richie

Book Overview

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415911451
• ISBN13: 9780415911450
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A less genteel world

An example of a prison industrial complex and how it has spilled over to the gentler sex. This disturbingly honest depiction of the American justice system provides more than enough examples of what happens when society turns a blind eye to the less fortunate.