Black Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice

A Discourse on Disadvantage

• Author(s): Ruth Chigwada-Bailey,
• Publisher: Waterside Press
• Pages: 144
• ISBN_10: 1872870546
  ISBN_13: 9781872870540
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Law / General , Law / Gender & the Law , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies , Social Science / Criminology , Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Black Studies (Global) ,

Description:... This text looks at the multiple hazards of discrimination - on the bas is of race, gender and class - faced by black women who come into contact with the criminal justice process. It contains extracts from interviews with black women prisoners, background information about discrimination and disadvantage, and the authors' argument that the agenda should be one of making things happen.