Beth RichieBeth E. Richie is head of the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Richie is the author of Compelled to Crime: the Gender Entrapment of Black Battere Women and Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation and a coeditor of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom. Read More Read Less