With emphasis on comparative analyses, the book discusses a variety of subjects, including incarceration, domestic violence, the legal control of biological processes, sexual discrimination and harassment, women who work in the criminal justice field including law enforcement, and racial and ethnic discrimination. The book's nine essays explore the following subjects: women and the law in America; a global perspective on women professionals in criminal justice; wife abuse in South Korea; gender and crime in the United States and Finland; discrimination against women in Egypt and Lebanon; wife rape in Great Britain; the history of police spouse abuse policies in the United States; violence against women in the Caribbean; and gender differences in crime. References, cases, notes, tables, figure, index