The female offender : girls, women, and crime /
Pasko, Lisa.
Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-211) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2.Girls' Troubles and "Female Delinquency" -- Trends in Girls' Arrests -- Boys' Theories and Girls' Lives -- Criminalizing Girls' Survival: Abuse, Victimization, and Girls' Official Delinquency -- Delinquency Theory and Gender: Beyond Status Offenses -- 3.Girls, Gangs, and Violence -- Girls Gone Wild? -- The Media, Girls of Color, and Gangs -- Trends in Girls' Violence and Aggression -- Girls, Robbery, and "Other" Assaults -- Girl Gang Membership -- Girls and Gangs: Qualitative Studies -- Labeling Girls Violent? -- Girls, Gangs, and Media Hype: A Final Note -- 4.The Juvenile Justice System and Girls -- "The Best Place to Conquer Girls" -- Girls and Juvenile Justice Reform -- Deinstitutionalization and Judicial Paternalism: Challenges to the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice -- Rising Detentions and Racialized Justice -- Offense Patterns of Girls in Custody -- Bootstrapping -- Deinstitutionalization or Transinstitutionalization? Girls and the Mental Health System -- Girls' Sexuality in Institutional Environments -- Human Rights Abuses in Girls' Institutions? -- Instead of Incarceration: What Could Be Done to Meet the Needs of Girls? -- 5.Trends in Women's Crime -- Unruly Women: A Brief History of Women's Offenses -- Trends in Women's Arrests -- How Could She? The Nature and Causes of Women's Crime -- Embezzlement -- Driving Under the Influence -- Larceny Theft/Shoplifting -- Big Time/Small Time -- Pathways to Women's Crime -- Beyond the Street Woman: Resurrecting the Liberated Female Crook? -- The Revival of the "Violent Female Offender" -- 6.Sentencing Women to Prison: Equality Without Justice -- Trends in Women's Crime: A Reprise -- Women, Violent Crimes, and the War on Drugs -- Getting Tough on Women's Crime -- Building More Women's Prisons -- Profile of Women in U.S. Prisons -- Childhoods of Women in Prison -- Current Offenses -- Property Crimes -- Drug Use Among Women in Prison -- Mothers Behind Bars -- Race and Women's Imprisonment -- Different Versus Equal? -- Prisons and Parity -- Reducing Women's Imprisonment Through Effective Community-Based Strategies and Programs -- Detention Versus Prevention -- 7.Female Offenders, Community Supervision, and Evidence-Based Practices / Janet T. Davidson -- Trends in Probation, Incarceration, and Parole -- Evidence-Based Practices and Gender-Neutral Supervision -- Challenging Gender-Neutral Risk-Driven Supervision -- Criminal History -- Education and Employment -- Financial -- Family and Marital -- Accommodation -- Alcohol and Drug Problems -- Emotional and Personal -- Challenging Gender-Neutral Supervision: Women's Histories of Victimization, Health Problems, and Child Care Needs -- Histories of Abuse -- Health and Children -- Supervision and Reintegration -- Moving Forward: Gender-Equitable Supervision for Female Offenders in the Community -- Promising Examples for Moving Forward -- 8.Conclusion.
Female offenders
Female juvenile delinquents
Discrimination in criminal justice administration