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                FORTHCOMING                     Proud Heritage                    Crime and

              Gender Roles in                   People, Issues, and               Punishment in America
              American Life                     Documents of the                  An Encyclopedia of Trends
                                                LGBT Experience                   and Controversies in the
              A Documentary History             3 VOLUMES                         Justice System
              of Political, Social, and         CHUCK STEWART, EDITOR
              Economic Changes                                                    2 VOLUMES
                                                                                  LAURA L. FINLEY, EDITOR
              2 VOLUMES
              CONSTANCE L. SHEHAN, EDITOR













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                perspectives—male and female,                                     LAURA FINLEY, PhD, is associate
                conservative and progressive,                                     professor of sociology and criminology
                historical and current          CHUCK STEWART, PhD, teaches       at Barry University, Miami Shores, FL.
                                                math and statistics courses for National
                                                University and University of Phoenix
              CONSTANCE L. SHEHAN is professor   and is an independent researcher and
              of sociology and women’s studies at   writer on LGBT topics.
              the University of Florida.


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