Cover of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women

Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 200 pages

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