Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Despite what major
media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is …

Legalizing Moves analyzes the battle Salvadoran immigrants have fought for two decades to
win legal permanent residency in the United States. Drawing on interviews with Salvadoran …

Marian Meyers explores evidence that shows that news coverage in North American cities
routinely depicts criminal violence against females differently from the way it depicts …

What is it about crime that makes itmen's work'? Can we imagine masculinity without crime?
This is the first book of its kind to bring contributors from three continents together to examine …

Depictions of rape on television have evolved dramatically, from hard-boiled stories about
male detectives to more insightful shows focusing on rape victims. Rape on Prime Time is …

Masculinity, Law and Family examines the construction of masculinity in a variety of areas of
law pertaining to the family. Throughout, Richard Collier integrates recent theoretical …

Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to
public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya …

This study uses discourse analysis to examine the representation of violence against African
American women in local TV news coverage of Freaknik, an annual “spring break” ritual that …

This textual analysis of the newspaper coverage of the murder of a battered woman by her
husband shows how myths and stereotypes combine to blame the victim for her own death …

Law and sociology are often presented as two distinct disciplines and bodies of knowledge.
For example, Cotterrell–a socio-legal theorist–seeks to understand 'the nature and effects of …