Latinas in the Criminal Justice System - Victims, Targets, and Offenders

"This edited volume highlights Latina girls' and women's perceptions of and experiences within the US juvenile, criminal, and immigration enforcement systems."--

About the author

Vera Lopez (Editor)

Vera Lopez is a Professor of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University and author of Complicated Lives: Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice.

Lisa Pasko (Editor)

Lisa Pasko is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology, and affiliated faculty in the Gender and Women's Studies Program, at the University of Denver. She is co-author of The Female Offender, Girls, Women, and Crime and Girls, Women, and Crime: Selected Readings and Latinas in the Criminal Justice System: Victims, Targets, and Offenders.

Product details

• Authors: Vera (EDT)/ Pasko Lopez
• Assisted by: Vera Lopez (Editor), Lisa Pasko (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781479891962
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-9196-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Latina/O Sociology
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore