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

Despite representing roughly 16 percent of incarcerated women, Latina women and girls are often rendered invisible in accounts of American crime and punishment. In Latinas in the Criminal Justice System, Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko bring together a group of distinguished scholars to provide a more complete, nuanced picture of Latinas as victims, offenders, and targets of deportation. Featuring Cecilia Menjívar, Lisa M. Martinez, Alice Cepeda, and others, this volume examines the complex histories, backgrounds, and struggles of Latinas in the criminal justice system. Contributors show us how Latinas encounter a variety of justice systems, including juvenile detention, adult court and corrections, and immigration and customs enforcement. Topics include Latina victims of crime and their perceptions of police officers; the impact of the US "crimmigration" system on undocumented Latina women; and help-seeking among Latina victims of intimate partner violence. Additionally, key chapters highlight the emergence of legal reforms, community mobilization efforts, and gender-sensitive alternatives to incarceration designed to increase equitable outcomes. Lopez and Pasko broaden our understanding of how gender, ethnicity, and legal status uniquely shape the experiences of system-impacted Latina girls and women. Latinas in the Criminal Justice System is a timely and much-needed resource for academics, activists, and policymakers. -- Provided by publisher.

Latina/o sociology series

Introduction / Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko

Part I: Victimization to offending blurring the boundaries. Entre mujeres platicamos : the role of informal social networks among Latina survivors of intimate partner violence / Sujey Vega, Alesha Durfee, and Jill Messing ; Latina interpersonal victimization : the importance of sexual orientation / Lindsay Kahle and Anthony Peguero ; Nondisclosure of IPV victimization among disadvantaged Mexican American young adult women / Alice Cepeda, Esmeralda Ramirez, Jessica Frankeberger, Kathryn M. Nowotny, and Avelardo Valdez

Part II: Latina offenders from court to correctional involvement. Demasiados problemas : a focus on gender, ethnicity, and juvenile diversion programming / Lisa Pasko and Jean Denious ; On the run and in/out of the system : understanding Latina girls in a Southern California barrio / Jerry Flores, Xuan Santos, and Ariana Ochoa Camacho ; The correlates and consequences of maternal efficacy among imprisoned women / Holly Foster and Chantrey J. Murphy

Part III: Immigration enforcement, crimmigration, and the deportation machine. No solamente porque soy mujer : a transnational intersectional framework for understanding Latin American women's experiences with crimmigration / Katie Dingeman and William Estuardo Rosales ; Masking punitive practices : Latina immigrants' experiences in the U.S. detention complex / Cecilia Menjivar, Andrea Gomez Cervantes, and William G. Staples ; Adriana and Esther : experiences of formerly incarcerated migrant women deportees / Martha Escobar ; Young women's and girl's experiences in the facilitation of migrant smuggling / Gabriella Sanchez

Part IV: Community programming for system-impacted Latinas. From the streets to the halls of higher education : the case of an undocumented Latina on the margins of the justice system / Lisa M. Martinez ; Maternal racial and ethnic strategies as a protective factor against delinquency among Latina girls : an exploratory study / Veronica E. Cano ; Mi hermana's keeper : empowering Latina youth to improve services that prevent juvenile justice involvement / DeAna Swan, Johanna Creswell Baez, and Diandrea Garza ; Xinachtli : a healing-informed, gendered, and culturally responsive approach with system-involved Latinas / Sara Haskie-Mendoza, Josephine V. Serrata, Jeronerto Escamilla, and Christian Jaimes

Conclusion / Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko.

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Female offenders > United States.

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