Foreword / by Claire M. Renzetti
Editor's preface and acknowledgments
Ways to inquire: research methods
Introduction: from passion to practice / Joanne Belknap and Hillary Potter
Feminist research methods in theory and action: learning from death row exonerees / Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook
Dispatches from the field: negotiating difference and diversity in criminological research / Shana L. Maier and Brian A. Monahan
Inquirers: professionals, activists, and researchers
"Comforting the troubled and troubling the comfortable": reflections on lawyering for the poor / Daniel Atkins and Eliza Patten
When the stakes are life and death: the promise and peril of public sociology/criminology for capital cases / Jill McCorkel
Getting from here to there: a guide for aspiring academics / Susan Caringella and Drew Humphries
Diversifying the research enterprise: experiences of African American women working in a federal research agency / Angela Moore-Parmley and Jocelyn Fontaine
Sites of inquiry: topics and samples
Changing my life, among others: reflections on the life and work of a feminist man / Walter S. DeKeseredy
Managing a man's world: the experiences of a female probation officer in a male sex offender supervision unit / Michelle L. Meloy
Diversity in blue: lesbian and gay police officers in a masculine occupation / Susan L. Miller, Kay B. Forest, and Nancy C. Jurik
"This isn't about us": benefits of dog training programs in a women's prison / Dana M. Britton and Andrea L. Button
Epilogue: Criminal justice, gender, and diversity: a call for passion and public criminology / Meda Chesney-Lind
Contributors' biographies.
