ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book attempts to demonstrate the uniqueness of the problems that face black women along with the problems that they share with those who experience the race, class, and or gender relations that affect black women. It attempts to receive rather than to collect data because of ethical and technical reasons. The book suggests ways of understanding the articulation, disarticulation and rearticulation of both social relations and social practice, in both social theory and social policy. It shows that victimisation which is based on gender also affects poor black men and that similar practices based on race also affect white women but in different ways compared to how they affect black women. The book demonstrates that the preoccupation with penalty is both partial and misleading in the study of the criminal justice system.
