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Justice Provocateur
Justice Provocateur focuses on Prime Suspect, a popular British television film series starring Oscar and Emmy award-winning actress Helen Mirren as fictional London policewoman Jane Tennison. Gray Cavender and Nancy C. Jurik examine the media constructions of justice, gender, and police work in the show, exploring its progressive treatment of contemporary social problems in which women are central protagonists. They argue that the show acts as a vehicle for progressive moral fiction--fiction that gives voice to victim experiences, locates those experiences within a larger social context, transcends traditional legal definitions of justice for victims, and offers insights into ways that individuals might challenge oppressive social and organizational arrangements. _x000B__x000B_Although Prime Suspect is often seen as a uniquely progressive, feminist-inspired example within the typically more conservative, male-dominated crime genre, Cavender and Jurik also address the complexity of the films' gender politics. Consistent with some significant criticisms of the films, they identify key moments in the series when Tennison's character appears to move from a successful woman who has it all to a post-feminist stereotype of a lonely, aging career woman with no strong family or friendship ties. Shrewdly interpreting the show as an illustration of the tensions and contradictions of women's experiences and their various relations to power, Justice Provocateur provides a framework for interrogating the meanings and implications of justice, gender, and social transformation both on and off the screen._x000B_
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Doing justice, doing gender : women in legal and criminal justice occupations
Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations is a highly readable, sociologically grounded analysis of women working in traditionally male dominant justice occupations of law, policing, and corrections. This Second Edition represents not only a thorough update of research on women in these fields, but a careful reconsideration of changes in justice organizations and occupations and their impact on women′s justice work roles over the past 40 years.
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\DOING GENDER\ AS CANON OR AGENDA: A Symposium on West and Zimmerman
An introduction to a symposium on Candace West & Don Zimmerman's, \"Doing Gender\" (1987), the most cited article ever published in Gender & Society, notes that West & Zimmerman challenged accepted views of gender as either an individual role or a reflection of biological differences & transformed research on the interplay of gender, race, & class in social interaction. Several of the contributors were presenters at a session of the Sociologists for Women in Society 2007 summer meetings where the idea for this symposium emerged. The articles present the views of both well-known scholars & newer voices on \"Doing Gender\" as well as a response by West & Zimmerman. Varied approaches are used to address theoretical, methodological, & transformative issues. The contributors suggest a need for a more unified understanding of doing gender & its interrelationship with biology & sex-category-assignment processes. They resist the temptation to \"canonize\" the work as theory even though \"Doing Gender\" has inspired an agenda for social transformation. A brief synopsis of each essay is included. References. J. Lindroth
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Sustainable Workplaces as Innovation
Degenerative or socially toxic work environments have returned to public and scholarly attention since the great recession of 2008. Business scholars and management experts have increasingly called for new strategies to build more sustainable work systems that better promote employee well-being as well as long-run productivity. Our research examines interview narratives by the owner-operators of 60 small businesses identified as innovative enterprises in their community. Respondents identified the building of a positive work environment for their employees as a key condition necessary for innovation. Although this was an unanticipated finding in our study of business innovation, an examination of the emerging literature on workplace toxicity and sustainable human relations management revealed significant consistency between our respondent-identified strategies and recommendations for building a regenerative work environment. These findings suggest that small innovative businesses may offer a fertile arena for the development of sustainable work systems.
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Imagining Justice: Challenging the Privatization of Public Life
Society today is characterized by a hyper-privatization that is reconstructing everything from non-profits and government, to community, family and individual life--all in the image of the market. New privatization trends are effectively framing contemporary public analyses of social problems and social justice, and they threaten to colonize available spaces from which even to criticize and challenge their impact.
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The Construction of Gender in Reality Crime TV
This article focuses on the social construction of femininity in a reality television program, America's Most Wanted. The program blurs fact and fiction in reenactments of actual crimes. The analysis focuses on its depiction of women crime victims. A prior study argues that the program empowers women to speak about their victimization. Other research suggests that such programs make women fearful. The authors compare episodes from the 1988-1989 and the 1995-1996 seasons. Although women spoke about their victimization, men spoke more often and presented master narratives about the crimes. In both seasons, the program imagery emphasized feminine vulnerability to violence from strange, devious, and brutal men and masculine technical expertise and authority as women's protection from such violence.
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Investigating and Challenging
In this chapter we consider both the strategies of detection that enable Jane Tennison to solve cases and the television production techniques employed in the series that establish Tennison as a credible and successful female protagonist in a previously male-dominated subgenre. Thus, we examine methods whereby the male dominance of the police procedural is decentered in Prime Suspect.
To attract an audience, authors and creators of new crime genre productions typically distinguish their chief protagonist with some unique personality characteristics or detecting method. The Prime Suspect series combines realism with the highly competent, driving force of a woman succeeding in
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