Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations

“Martin and Jurik provide a clear body of evidence illuminating the gendered nature of criminal justice occupations. Of the multitude of feminist works on this topic, this is one of the best analyses available.”

—CRIMINAL JUSTICE REVIEW

Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations is a highly readable, sociologically grounded analysis of women working in traditionally male dominant justice occupations of law, policing, and corrections. This Second Edition represents not only a thorough update of research on women in these fields, but a careful reconsideration of changes in justice organizations and occupations and their impact on women's justice work roles over the past 40 years.

New to the Second Edition:

• Introduces a wider range of workplace diversity and experiences: An expanded sociological theoretical framework grasps ...