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Women and the Criminal Justice System

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Women’s Victimization: Global Perspectives

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Significance of Global Knowledge

• Increasingly globalizing world
• Increasing immigration
• Much to learn from other countries

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Women’s Victimization Worldwide

• Deaths, pregnancy, childbirth, AIDS
• “Missing” girls in China, India
• Plight of women refugees
• Impact of global market forces

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Transnational Crime

• Family-dowry-related deaths
• Genital mutilation
• Honor killings

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Transnational Crime continued

• Community level – sex trafficking
• Need for universal standards
• State level – rape as an instrument of war

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Transnational Crime continued

• Sex trafficking
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Immigration and Domestic Violence

• Impact of resettlement on families
• Vulnerability of female immigrant
• Foreign wives of military men
• Mistreatment by the state of immigrant asylum-seekers in detention

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Legacy of the Middle East Wars

• Training of soldiers to kill as reflex
• Dehumanization of the enemy

• Degradation of feminine traits in soldiers leads to difficulty in getting help

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Impact of War on Women

• Rape as a war crime

• Impact on families

• Status of women in militarized society

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Conclusion: Global Peace Initiatives

• Rescue of war rape victims, return to families

• Restorative justice globally—reparations for war victims