Download or read book A Profile of Women in the Nevada Prison System written by Florozeen Rand Gray and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dangerous Women Dangerous Times written by Donna Crail-Rugotzke and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unforgettable Nevada Women written by Southern Nevada Women's History Project and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgettable Nevada Women is the Southern Nevada Women's History Project's third volume dedicated to recognizing the contributions of noteworthy Nevada women to the development and enrichment of the Silver State. Through interviews, public records, and private papers shared by friends and family, and collected historical accounts from newspapers and oral histories, volunteers have gathered together these stories of one hundred remarkable women. Nevada has been home to diverse and dynamic women, including the first woman owner and operator of a hotel-casino, the founder of Weight Watchers, the designer of the famous 'Welcome to Las Vegas' sign, and a nun whose Angel Bread saved a much-needed hospital from closing. Also included are stories of singers, dancers, actresses, community activists, government leaders, and a world expert on organic chemistry. Within these pages are also accounts of educators, artists, an internationally known hypnotist, Native American crusaders, and a judge. Just as Skirts that Swept the Desert Floor and Steadfast Sisters of the Silver State each chronicled the lives of one hundred amazing women in Nevada history, Unforgettable Nevada Women offers a tribute to the achievements of one hundred women who have made a lasting impact on Nevada life.
Download or read book Criminal Law written by Thomas Morawetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: This volume includes essays on the theory and practice of criminal law. Many of the essays are interdisciplinary, reflecting the influence of developments in philosophy, sociology and psychology on the concept of criminality. Cross-cultural issues are also raised and considered.
Download or read book Skirts that Swept the Desert Floor written by Southern Nevada Women's History Project and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skirts that Swept the Desert Floor tells the stories of 100 women whose lives shaped the social, cultural, and economic world of Nevada over the last two centuries. Some of the women, like prospector Josie Pearl and singer Emma Wixom Nevada, are justly famous. But the book also celebrates the many less-known teachers, organizers, and suffragettes who influenced the course of the state's history in ways both large and small. In the process, a few popular Nevada myths are busted, reputations are rehabilitated, and some of Nevada's brave early pioneer women are rescued from undeserved obscurity. As an historical and women's studies resource, Skirts that Swept the Desert Floor is an invaluable reference work that deserves a place on the shelves of schools, libraries, or anyone interested in the state of Nevada and the place of women in the world
Download or read book The Accidental Warden written by Brook Carey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1975, Brook Carey was selected from among three hundred applicants to serve as warden of the California Institution for Women even though she had no background in Corrections. She was handed a ring of keys and a paperback copy of Helter Skelter, the story of Charles Manson. Nobody told her that the plan was for her to be a figurehead while her subordinates ran the prison behind her back. So begins the improbable-but true-story, told by Carey herself, of an outsider's tumultuous year inside the hidden world of California's women's correctional system. Her scant orientation scarcely prepared her for the challenges: an inadequate budget, a stifling bureaucracy, a riot threat, and, oh yes, the Manson Family. It just so happened that Carey's new workplace was home to the "Manson girls", and the determined followers of Manson took delight in making death threats to wardens who incarcerated Manson "Family" members. Against the odds, Carey used creativity and courage as she confronted a dangerous and daunting environment, making essential improvements for inmates and meeting personally with Charles Manson at San Quentin. The Accidental Warden is both an astonishing tale of one woman rising to the occasion and an extraordinary look into the mysterious micro-society of a women's prison.
Download or read book Introduction to Criminal Justice written by Kenneth J. Peak and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling Introduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process uses a practical, applied approach to teach students the foundations of the U.S. criminal justice system. Award-winning authors Kenneth J. Peak and Tamara D. Madensen-Herold draw on their many years of combined practitioner and academic experience to explain the importance of criminal justice and show how key trends, emerging issues, and practical lessons can be applied in the field. The Fourth Edition keeps students up to date with new content on recent cases, cybercrime, policing strategies, drug abuse, human trafficking, terrorism, immigration, and much more. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.
Download or read book Women in Prison written by Kathryn Watterson and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steadfast Sisters of the Silver State written by So Nevada Women's History Project and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of the women who helped build Nevada. Some were ranchers who organized rodeos or protected the state's wild mustangs. Others were socialites or entertainer who raised funds for new community institutions and social services.
Download or read book Through the Glass Ceiling written by Richard Hoadley and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of Content:Through the Glass Ceiling: A Life in Nevada Politics is the oral history of Sue Wagner, who served in the assembly in the 1970s, in the senate in the 1980s, and was elected lieutenant governor in 1991, serving one term. Sue Wagner became involved in Nevadas political scene as a young wife and mother of two small children. This memoir reveals Wagners rare and indomitable spirit in her multi-faceted life as mother, friend, political activist, sports enthusiast, mentor, teacher, and leader. When she entered the Nevada Legislature, Sue Wagner was a fightera woman with experience, determination, and the ability to cross the gender gap and move through the glass ceiling. She was an able negotiator with both men and women, and over the next twenty-some years her colleagues came to know and respect her. In her oral history Wagner shares the background that shaped her political skills. Her oral history covers her Nevada political career in depth, right down to the inner workings of the committees and the powerful people who served with her. It also recounts the many issues she supported, including safe houses for abused women, prison-system reform, abortion rights, and the fight to ratify the ERA as an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Sue Wagner played a leading role as a champion of womens rightsespecially their right to serve in public office. One compelling thread weaves unrelentingly through her lifetragic losses. In 1980 her husband, Peter Wagner, was killed in an airplane crash while working for the Desert Research Institute. The second airplane crash in her life came in 1990 when she was a passenger in a small plane returning to Reno from Fallon, Nevada, where she was wrapping up a successful campaign for lieutenant governor. Her strong will kept her alive through the painful days ahead and the continued health challenges resulting from her injuries. She won that election and servedagainst all odds, based on her healthas lieutenant governor. Although Wagner no longer runs for Nevada public office, she still serves the state on the Nevada Gaming Commission and the Washoe Medical Center Advisory Board. When the legislature is in session, she places university students as legislative interns and continues to mentor young men and women as they enter the political arena. Through her continued work for Nevada, Sue Wagner lives her passion every day and continues laying the groundwork for women to join the political process and move through the glass ceiling.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders written by Martin Guevara Urbina and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2008 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few empirical studies have focused on women in prison. In the last few years, though, a number of studies have demonstrated that there are fundamental differences between male and female prisoners in an ever-changing penal system. Consequently, there has been a need for more comprehensive studies of female offenders for three primary reasons: (1) imperative research gaps remain to be bridged; (2) the female prison experience is not constant; and (3) prison rates for female offenders, especially minority offenders, have increased considerably in the last few years. A central goal of this book.
Download or read book Gendered Justice in the American West written by Anne M. Butler and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of women prisoners in men's penitentiaries from 1865 to 1915, Anne M. Butler shows that the women, already faced with distinct gender disadvantages within western society, were subjected to intense physical and mental violence while in prison. For women of color or of lower social class, she argues, the violence was even greater and more frequent. Butler's poignant cross-cultural account draws on prison records and the words of the women themselves. She explores how nineteenth-century criminologists constructed the criminal woman; the elements of age, race, class, and gender in women's court proceedings; the kinds of violence encountered by women inmates; their diet, illnesses, experiences with pregnancy and child-bearing; prison work systems for women; and women's own strategies for response.
Download or read book But They All Come Back written by Jeremy Travis and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iron law of imprisonment is that “they all come back”. In 2002, more than 630,000 individuals left U.S. federal and state prisons. Thirty years ago, only 150,000 did. In this study, Travis decribes the new realities of imprisonment, and explores the impact of returning prisoners on seven policy domains: public safety, families and children, work, housing, public health, civic identity, and community capacity. Travis proposes a new architecture for the criminal justice system, organized around five principles of reentry, to encourage change and spur innovation.
Download or read book Federal Probation written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nevada Public Affairs Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prison Industries written by United States. Department of Commerce. Advisory committee on prison industries and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Safe Haven written by Lori B. Girshick and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work draws on the life stories of forty women inmates at a minimum security prison in North Carolina. It explores their lives before imprisonment, enabling the reader to understand their incarceration within the context of childhood and adolescent experiences, domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, low education levels, and poor work histories. Lori B. Girshick relates the prisoners' views of doing time, the criminal justice system, and their own rehabilitation. She also interviews family members, friends, and social service providers to show how support networks function or fail." "Girshick argues convincingly that the treatment of women in society creates circumstances that lead some of them to break the law, and she makes specific recommendations for policies that address the need for social change and for community programs designed to deter crime."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
