The victimization of women : law, policies, and politics / Michelle L. Meloy, Susan L. Miller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Drawing the contours of victim dilemmas -- The violent victimization of women: an overview of legal, empirical, and measurement issues -- Media, gender, and crime victims -- Sexual victimization: offenders speak out about their victims -- How battered women lose: unintended consequences of well-intentioned legal and criminal justice policies -- Assessing where we are, where we should go, and how best to get there.

In The Victimization of Women, Michelle L. Meloy and Susan L. Miller present a balanced and comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women. They examine the history of violence against women, the surrounding debates, the legal reforms, the related media and social-service responses, and the current science on intimate-partner violence, stalking, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape. They augment these victimization findings with original research on women convicted of domestic battery and m.

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