Kathleen J Ferraro
Biographic Data
| ID | 85166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen J Ferraro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferraro |
| SIGNATURE | FERRARO K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. It offers recommendations for action around key issues for social justice
Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during WWII
Invisible or Pathologized? Racial Statistics and Violence Against Women of Color
This article applies Tukufu Zuberi's (2001) analysis of racial statistics to the issue of violence against women of color. Data from several national surveys are discussed in terms of the potential for drawing needed attention and resources to women of color and the simultaneous danger of reinforcing stereotypes of pathological communities. I argue for the importance of history and social context as well as qualitative narratives, particularly wi…
Criminalized Mothers: The Value and Devaluation of Parenthood from Behind Bars
With the number of incarcerated women rising in the United States, scholarship and activism has focused more explicitly on the backgrounds, criminal contexts, and programming needs of the imprisoned population. This article focuses on motherhood and relies on qualitative life-history interviews with thirty women in a southwestern detention center. The women's narratives are used to further our understanding of the ways in which motherhood (1) res…
The Culture of Social Problems: Observations of the Third Reich, the Cold War, and Vietnam
Journal Article The Culture of Social Problems: Observations of the Third Reich, the Cold War, and Vietnam Get access Kathleen J. Ferraro Kathleen J. Ferraro Northern Arizona University Direct correspondence to: Kathleen J. Ferraro, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 15300, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Schol…
Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance
Malign Neglect or Benign Respect
A central tenet of feminist criminological scholarship is the examination of women's experiences with crime and incarceration through their own narratives. Through semi-structured interviews with thirty jailed women, this article examines carceral conditions through the critical lens of the female inmate. Highlighted in this article is the availability and quality of health care in a detention center in Arizona. The findings indicate a contentiou…
Women in Prison: Gender and Social Control
It is old news that the conditions and policies of women's prisons are different from those of incarcerated men. Less evident, however, is how gender differences shape those policies, and how gender identity and roles shape women's adaptation and resistance to prison culture and control. Women in Prison explores how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment—and how gender stereotypes co…
The Words Change, But the Melody Lingers: The Persistence of the Battered Woman Syndrome in Criminal Cases Involving Battered Women
Acceptance of expert testimony on the battered woman syndrome in criminal and civil cases has established expectations about “real” battered women that reinforce conventional notions of femininity. Despite well-documented and publicized analyses of the status of the syndrome as no longer reflecting the range of knowledge relevant to battered women in legal settings, the expectations of helplessness promoted by the syndrome persist. In this articl…
Ordinary Violence: Everyday Assaults against Women
Introduction -- The Construction of Wife Batteru and/as a Social Problem Violence Agains -- Lenses on Violence: Seeing Assaults Against Women -- Swept Away: Cultural Support for Violence Against Women -- The Intersection of Work, Family, and Violence -- Just Tryin' to Make a Living -- Real Victims, Reasonableness, and Rape -- It's Just a Different Culture -- Corporate Violence Against Women -- The Consequences of Medicalizing Ordinary Assaults Ag…
Mothering, Crime, And Incarceration
This article examines the relationships between mothering, crime, and incarceration through the narratives of thirty women incarcerated in a southwestern county jail. The responsibilities of child care, combined with the burdens of economic marginality and domestic violence, led some women to choose economic crimes or drug dealing as an alternative to hunger and homelessness. Other women, arrested for drug- or alcohol-related crimes, related thei…
Research on Domestic Violence in the 1990s: Making Distinctions
This review of the family literature on domestic violence suggests that two broad themes of the 1990s provide the most promising directions for the future. The first is the importance of distinctions among types or contexts of violence. Some distinctions are central to the theoretical and practical understanding of the nature of partner violence, others provide important contexts for developing more sensitive and comprehensive theories, and other…
Battered Women's Justice: The Movement for Clemency and the Politics of Self-Defense
Imagine a state where the governor opens his home as a shelter for battered women, feminists hold appointed positions and respond to leftwing and feminist constituencies, the First Lady spends time talking with women in prison, and the Corrections Department allows inmates to speak with journalists. Imagine the governor grants mass clemency to 26 women incarcerated for killing abusive partners. Is this a fantasy from a feminist utopian novel? No,…
Gender, Crime, and Punishment . Kathleen Daly Punish and Critique: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Penalty . Adrian Howe
The Dance of Dependency: A Genealogy of Domestic Violence Discourse
Domestic violence discourse challenges cultural acceptance of male violence against women, yet it is often constituted by gendered, racialized, and class-based hierarchies. Transformative efforts have not escaped traces of these hierarchies. Emancipatory ideals guiding 1970s feminist activism have collided with conservative impulses to maintain and strengthen family relationships. Crime control discourse undermines critiques of dominance through …
It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay
Policing Woman Battering
In the 1980s, many states and cities mandated police officers to arrest men who batter women in family disputes. This observational study of a large metropolitan police department shows that in spite of the presumptive arrest policy, officers made arrests in only 18 percent of assaults involving intimate partners. Case material illustrates how legal, ideological, practical, and political factors led police to ignore the presumptive arrest policy …
Opening Closed Doors
How Women Experience Battering: The Process of Victimization
Journal Article How Women Experience Battering: The Process of Victimization Get access Kathleen J. Ferraro, Kathleen J. Ferraro Center for the Study of Justice, Arizona State University Correspondence to: Ferraro, Center for the Study of Justice, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar John M. Johnson John M. Johnson Center for the Study of Justice, Arizona S…
Problems of Prisoners' Families: The Hidden Costs of Imprisonment
This research examines the differential effects of imprisonment on the inmate's family-the hidden familial costs of imprisonment. Lengthy interviews were conducted with adult members of inmates' families in a sample drawn from a maximum security prison, and 46 of these are analyzed here. Problems with income, employment and child care were severe, pervasive, and subject to only minor changes over time. These affected spouses more than other famil…
Negotiating Trouble in a Battered Women's Shelter
The treatment of battered women is discussed by examining the micro- and macropolitical forces impinging on the operation of a battered women's shelter. Funding agencies, other social services, and interpretive frameworks of staff members formed the organizational context of the micropolitical context. The women's troubles were negotiated at three major stages-intake, processing, and return to the shelter-and the major micropolitical features of …
Processing Battered Women
Hard Love: Letting Go of an Abusive Husband
The image of the wife and mother as a compassionate, altruistic, forgiving martyr is still a powerful model for many women. The love of this perfect woman is blind and unwavering, even in the face of violent physical and emotional abuse. I would like to examine a different concept of lovehard love-as a means of breaking away from an abusive, alcoholic husband. Hard love, a term used to describe the intense caring which allows women to let go of t…
The divorce process
How Women Experience Battering: The Process of Victimization
Journal Article How Women Experience Battering: The Process of Victimization Get access Kathleen J. Ferraro, Kathleen J. Ferraro Center for the Study of Justice, Arizona State University Correspondence to: Ferraro, Center for the Study of Justice, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar John M. Johnson John M. Johnson Center for the Study of Justice, Arizona S…
Policing Woman Battering
In the 1980s, many states and cities mandated police officers to arrest men who batter women in family disputes. This observational study of a large metropolitan police department shows that in spite of the presumptive arrest policy, officers made arrests in only 18 percent of assaults involving intimate partners. Case material illustrates how legal, ideological, practical, and political factors led police to ignore the presumptive arrest policy …
Mothering, Crime, And Incarceration
This article examines the relationships between mothering, crime, and incarceration through the narratives of thirty women incarcerated in a southwestern county jail. The responsibilities of child care, combined with the burdens of economic marginality and domestic violence, led some women to choose economic crimes or drug dealing as an alternative to hunger and homelessness. Other women, arrested for drug- or alcohol-related crimes, related thei…
The Dance of Dependency: A Genealogy of Domestic Violence Discourse
Domestic violence discourse challenges cultural acceptance of male violence against women, yet it is often constituted by gendered, racialized, and class-based hierarchies. Transformative efforts have not escaped traces of these hierarchies. Emancipatory ideals guiding 1970s feminist activism have collided with conservative impulses to maintain and strengthen family relationships. Crime control discourse undermines critiques of dominance through …
Negotiating Trouble in a Battered Women's Shelter
The treatment of battered women is discussed by examining the micro- and macropolitical forces impinging on the operation of a battered women's shelter. Funding agencies, other social services, and interpretive frameworks of staff members formed the organizational context of the micropolitical context. The women's troubles were negotiated at three major stages-intake, processing, and return to the shelter-and the major micropolitical features of …
Criminalized Mothers: The Value and Devaluation of Parenthood from Behind Bars
With the number of incarcerated women rising in the United States, scholarship and activism has focused more explicitly on the backgrounds, criminal contexts, and programming needs of the imprisoned population. This article focuses on motherhood and relies on qualitative life-history interviews with thirty women in a southwestern detention center. The women's narratives are used to further our understanding of the ways in which motherhood (1) res…
Processing Battered Women
The Words Change, But the Melody Lingers: The Persistence of the Battered Woman Syndrome in Criminal Cases Involving Battered Women
Acceptance of expert testimony on the battered woman syndrome in criminal and civil cases has established expectations about “real” battered women that reinforce conventional notions of femininity. Despite well-documented and publicized analyses of the status of the syndrome as no longer reflecting the range of knowledge relevant to battered women in legal settings, the expectations of helplessness promoted by the syndrome persist. In this articl…
Problems of Prisoners' Families: The Hidden Costs of Imprisonment
This research examines the differential effects of imprisonment on the inmate's family-the hidden familial costs of imprisonment. Lengthy interviews were conducted with adult members of inmates' families in a sample drawn from a maximum security prison, and 46 of these are analyzed here. Problems with income, employment and child care were severe, pervasive, and subject to only minor changes over time. These affected spouses more than other famil…
The divorce process
Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during WWII
Hard Love: Letting Go of an Abusive Husband
The image of the wife and mother as a compassionate, altruistic, forgiving martyr is still a powerful model for many women. The love of this perfect woman is blind and unwavering, even in the face of violent physical and emotional abuse. I would like to examine a different concept of lovehard love-as a means of breaking away from an abusive, alcoholic husband. Hard love, a term used to describe the intense caring which allows women to let go of t…
The Culture of Social Problems: Observations of the Third Reich, the Cold War, and Vietnam
Journal Article The Culture of Social Problems: Observations of the Third Reich, the Cold War, and Vietnam Get access Kathleen J. Ferraro Kathleen J. Ferraro Northern Arizona University Direct correspondence to: Kathleen J. Ferraro, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 15300, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Schol…
Hard Love: Letting Go of an Abusive Husband
The image of the wife and mother as a compassionate, altruistic, forgiving martyr is still a powerful model for many women. The love of this perfect woman is blind and unwavering, even in the face of violent physical and emotional abuse. I would like to examine a different concept of lovehard love-as a means of breaking away from an abusive, alcoholic husband. Hard love, a term used to describe the intense caring which allows women to let go of t…
The divorce process
Processing Battered Women
How Women Experience Battering: The Process of Victimization
Journal Article How Women Experience Battering: The Process of Victimization Get access Kathleen J. Ferraro, Kathleen J. Ferraro Center for the Study of Justice, Arizona State University Correspondence to: Ferraro, Center for the Study of Justice, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar John M. Johnson John M. Johnson Center for the Study of Justice, Arizona S…
Problems of Prisoners' Families: The Hidden Costs of Imprisonment
This research examines the differential effects of imprisonment on the inmate's family-the hidden familial costs of imprisonment. Lengthy interviews were conducted with adult members of inmates' families in a sample drawn from a maximum security prison, and 46 of these are analyzed here. Problems with income, employment and child care were severe, pervasive, and subject to only minor changes over time. These affected spouses more than other famil…
Negotiating Trouble in a Battered Women's Shelter
The treatment of battered women is discussed by examining the micro- and macropolitical forces impinging on the operation of a battered women's shelter. Funding agencies, other social services, and interpretive frameworks of staff members formed the organizational context of the micropolitical context. The women's troubles were negotiated at three major stages-intake, processing, and return to the shelter-and the major micropolitical features of …
Opening Closed Doors
Policing Woman Battering
In the 1980s, many states and cities mandated police officers to arrest men who batter women in family disputes. This observational study of a large metropolitan police department shows that in spite of the presumptive arrest policy, officers made arrests in only 18 percent of assaults involving intimate partners. Case material illustrates how legal, ideological, practical, and political factors led police to ignore the presumptive arrest policy …
It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay
The Dance of Dependency: A Genealogy of Domestic Violence Discourse
Domestic violence discourse challenges cultural acceptance of male violence against women, yet it is often constituted by gendered, racialized, and class-based hierarchies. Transformative efforts have not escaped traces of these hierarchies. Emancipatory ideals guiding 1970s feminist activism have collided with conservative impulses to maintain and strengthen family relationships. Crime control discourse undermines critiques of dominance through …
Gender, Crime, and Punishment . Kathleen Daly Punish and Critique: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Penalty . Adrian Howe
Battered Women's Justice: The Movement for Clemency and the Politics of Self-Defense
Imagine a state where the governor opens his home as a shelter for battered women, feminists hold appointed positions and respond to leftwing and feminist constituencies, the First Lady spends time talking with women in prison, and the Corrections Department allows inmates to speak with journalists. Imagine the governor grants mass clemency to 26 women incarcerated for killing abusive partners. Is this a fantasy from a feminist utopian novel? No,…
Research on Domestic Violence in the 1990s: Making Distinctions
This review of the family literature on domestic violence suggests that two broad themes of the 1990s provide the most promising directions for the future. The first is the importance of distinctions among types or contexts of violence. Some distinctions are central to the theoretical and practical understanding of the nature of partner violence, others provide important contexts for developing more sensitive and comprehensive theories, and other…
Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance
Malign Neglect or Benign Respect
A central tenet of feminist criminological scholarship is the examination of women's experiences with crime and incarceration through their own narratives. Through semi-structured interviews with thirty jailed women, this article examines carceral conditions through the critical lens of the female inmate. Highlighted in this article is the availability and quality of health care in a detention center in Arizona. The findings indicate a contentiou…
Women in Prison: Gender and Social Control
It is old news that the conditions and policies of women's prisons are different from those of incarcerated men. Less evident, however, is how gender differences shape those policies, and how gender identity and roles shape women's adaptation and resistance to prison culture and control. Women in Prison explores how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment—and how gender stereotypes co…
The Words Change, But the Melody Lingers: The Persistence of the Battered Woman Syndrome in Criminal Cases Involving Battered Women
Acceptance of expert testimony on the battered woman syndrome in criminal and civil cases has established expectations about “real” battered women that reinforce conventional notions of femininity. Despite well-documented and publicized analyses of the status of the syndrome as no longer reflecting the range of knowledge relevant to battered women in legal settings, the expectations of helplessness promoted by the syndrome persist. In this articl…
Ordinary Violence: Everyday Assaults against Women
Introduction -- The Construction of Wife Batteru and/as a Social Problem Violence Agains -- Lenses on Violence: Seeing Assaults Against Women -- Swept Away: Cultural Support for Violence Against Women -- The Intersection of Work, Family, and Violence -- Just Tryin' to Make a Living -- Real Victims, Reasonableness, and Rape -- It's Just a Different Culture -- Corporate Violence Against Women -- The Consequences of Medicalizing Ordinary Assaults Ag…
Mothering, Crime, And Incarceration
This article examines the relationships between mothering, crime, and incarceration through the narratives of thirty women incarcerated in a southwestern county jail. The responsibilities of child care, combined with the burdens of economic marginality and domestic violence, led some women to choose economic crimes or drug dealing as an alternative to hunger and homelessness. Other women, arrested for drug- or alcohol-related crimes, related thei…
The Culture of Social Problems: Observations of the Third Reich, the Cold War, and Vietnam
Journal Article The Culture of Social Problems: Observations of the Third Reich, the Cold War, and Vietnam Get access Kathleen J. Ferraro Kathleen J. Ferraro Northern Arizona University Direct correspondence to: Kathleen J. Ferraro, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 15300, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Schol…
Criminalized Mothers: The Value and Devaluation of Parenthood from Behind Bars
With the number of incarcerated women rising in the United States, scholarship and activism has focused more explicitly on the backgrounds, criminal contexts, and programming needs of the imprisoned population. This article focuses on motherhood and relies on qualitative life-history interviews with thirty women in a southwestern detention center. The women's narratives are used to further our understanding of the ways in which motherhood (1) res…
Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during WWII
Invisible or Pathologized? Racial Statistics and Violence Against Women of Color
This article applies Tukufu Zuberi's (2001) analysis of racial statistics to the issue of violence against women of color. Data from several national surveys are discussed in terms of the potential for drawing needed attention and resources to women of color and the simultaneous danger of reinforcing stereotypes of pathological communities. I argue for the importance of history and social context as well as qualitative narratives, particularly wi…
Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. It offers recommendations for action around key issues for social justice
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Criminology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works)