Book Review: Juanita Diaz-Cotto Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio Austin,TX: University of Texas Press,2006. $55.00 (hbk),$21.95 (pbk). ISBN 0—292—71272—3,ISBN 0—292—71316—9

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Collins, Catherine Fisher (1997) The Imprisonment of African-American Women: Causes, Conditions and Future Implications. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

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Diaz-Cotto, Juanita (1996) Gender, Ethnicity, and the State: Latina and Latino Prison Politics. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Dutton, M.A. , L.E. Orloff and G. Aguilar Hass (2000) `Characteristics of Help-Seeking Behaviors, Resources and Service Needs of Battered Immigrant Latinas', Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy 2: 245-305.

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Madriz, Esther (1997) Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women's Lives. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Mendoza-Denton, Norma (1999) `Fighting Words: Latina Girls, Gangs, and Language Attitudes', in Speaking Chicana: Voice, Power and Identity. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

Moore, Joan (1994) `The Chola Life Course: Chicana Heroin Users and the Barrio Gang', International Journal of the Addictions 29: 1115-26.

Morin, Jose (2005) Latino/a Rights and Justice in the United States . Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Perilla, J.L. , R. Bakeman and F.H. Norris (1994) `Culture and Domestic Violence: The Ecology of Abused Latinas', Violence and Victims 9: 325-39.

Richie, Beth E. (1995) Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women. New York: Routledge .

Sorenson, S. and C. Telles (1991) `Self-Reports of Spousal Violence in a Mexican-American and non-Hispanic White Population', Violence Victims 6: 3-15.

Trinch, Shonna L. (2003) Latinas' Narratives of Domestic Abuse: A Study in Discrepant Versions of Violence. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.