Sexual Orientation and the Law

This pathfinder describes useful research strategies & key sources covering one of today's hottest employment topics. Explanations are provided on using the Internet, LEXIS-NEXIS, WESTLAW, & hard copy sources in locating material. Additional research information is provided for searching Congressional bills relating to this topic.

Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations is a highly readable, sociologically grounded analysis of women working in traditionally male dominant justice occupations of law, policing, and corrections. This Second Edition represents not only a thorough update of research on women in these fields, but a careful reconsideration of changes in justice organizations and occupations and their impact on women's justice work roles over the past 40 years.