Vera Lopez is a Professor of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University and author of Complicated Lives: Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice. Lisa Pasko is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology and affiliated faculty in the Gender & Women's Studies Program at the University of Denver. She is co-author of The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime.
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Latinas in the Criminal Justice System shines an important light on a topic long neglected by criminologists and criminology. Lopez and Pasko elevate the often ignored voices and situations of Latina girls and women, who are often invisible in the many debates about immigration. A must read. -- Meda Chesney-Lind, co-author of Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and Hype