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More than one in three women in the United States has experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life&mdash;but what happens to them after?&#160;<I>Journeys&#160;</I>focuses on the desperately understudied topic of the resiliency of long-term (over 5 years) survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse. Drawing on participant observation research and interviews with women years after the end of their abusive relationships, author&#160;Susan&#160;L. Miller shares these women&rsquo;s trials and tribulations, and expounds on the factors that facilitated these women&rsquo;s success in gaining inner strength, personal efficacy, and transformation. &#160;<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Written for researchers, practitioners, students, and policy makers in criminal justice, sociology, and social services,&#160;<I>Journeys&#160;</I>shares stories that hope to inspire other victims and survivors while illuminating the different paths to resiliency and growth.<BR /><BR />

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In&#160;<I>The Chosen Ones</I>, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Francisco&rsquo;s historically Black neighborhood, the Fillmore. Against all odds, these men work to atone for past crimes by reaching out to other Black men, young and old, with the hope of guiding them toward a better life. Yet despite their genuine efforts, they struggle to find a new place in their old neighborhood. With a poignant yet hopeful voice, Jones illustrates how neighborhood politics, everyday interactions with the police, and conservative Black gender ideologies shape the men&rsquo;s ability to make good and forgive themselves&mdash;and how the double-edged sword of community shapes the work of redemption.

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Abusive Endings&#160;offers a thorough analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to the health and well-being of women today&mdash;abuse at the hands of their male partners. The authors provide a moving description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during and after a separation or divorce. The material is punctuated with the stories and voices of both perpetrators and survivors of abuse, as told to the authors over many years of fieldwork. Written in a highly readable fashion, this book will be a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy makers.

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In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women&rsquo;s prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women&rsquo;s pathways to prison. Women must negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital&mdash;social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic&mdash;to ensure their safety while inside. The authors also analyze how conflict and subsequent violence result from human-rights violations inside the prison that occur within the gendered context of substandard prison conditions, inequalities of capital among those imprisoned, and relationships with correctional staff.&#160;In Search of Safety proposes a way forward&mdash;the implementation of international human-rights standards for U.S. prisons.&#160; &#160;

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From home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. Follow the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline. Their experiences in the connected programs between &ldquo;El Valle&rdquo; Juvenile Detention Center and &ldquo;Legacy&rdquo; Community School reveal the accelerated fusion of California schools and institutions of confinement. The girls participate in well-intentioned wraparound services designed to provide them with support at home, at school, and in the detention center. But these services may more closely resemble the phenomenon of&#160;<I>wraparound incarceration</I>, in which students, despite leaving the actual detention center, cannot escape the surveillance of formal detention, and are thereby slowly pushed away from traditional schooling and a productive life course.&#160;

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The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolution, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, has created new subjectivities, but, paradoxically, has also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively.

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Decriminalizing&#160;Domestic&#160;Violence&#160;asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner&#160;violence&#160;in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse and&#160;violence&#160;in their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partner&#160;violence. The book examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or to prevent intimate partner&#160;violence&#160;in the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics in&#160;domestic violence, family&#160;violence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partner&#160;violence&#160;not solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public health, community, and human rights problem. It also argues that only by viewing intimate partner&#160;violence&#160;through these lenses can we develop a balanced policy agenda for addressing it. At a moment when we are examining our national addiction to punishment, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence offers a thoughtful, pragmatic roadmap to real reform.

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