In her own words
Subtitle: women offenders' views on crime and victimization : an anthology
By: [edited by] Leanne Fiftal Alarid and Paul Cromwell.
Contributors: Alarid, Leanne Fiftal, 1967-; Cromwell, Paul F.
Publisher: Roxbury Pub. Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Female offenders -- United States; Criminal behavior -- United States; Women with social disabilities -- United States; Feminist criminology -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From victims to survivors to offenders : women's routes of entry and immersion into street crime / Mary E. Gilfus; title: Black women's pathways to involvement in illicit drug distribution and sales / Lisa Maher, Eloise Dunlap, and Bruce D. Johnson; title: Coping, resisting, and surviving: connecting women's law violations to their history of abuse / Elizabeth Comack; title: Naming oneself criminal : gender differences in offenders' identity negotiation / Brenda Geiger and Michael Fischer; title: I'm calling my mom : the meaning of family and kinship among Latina homegirls / Geoffrey P. Hunt, Kathleen MacKenzie, and Karen A. Joe-Laidler; title: The lives and times of Asian-Pacific American women methamphetamine users / Karen A. Joe-Laidler; title: The impact of mothering on criminal offending / Kathleen J. Ferraro and Angela M. Moe; title: Women who have killed their children / Susan M. Crimmins ... [et al.]; title: Do women play a primary or a secondary role in felony offenses? : a comparison by race/ethnicity / Leanne Fiftal Alarid ... [et al.]; title: A woman's place is in the home : females and residential burglary / Scott H. Decker ... [et al.]; title: Comparing female gangs of various ethnicities : young women of African-American, El Salvadoran, and Mexican descent / David C. Brotherton; title: Young women and gang violence : gender, street offending, and violent victimization in gangs / Scott H. Decker and Jody Miller; title: One woman's voice : my mother was a whore / Nikki Levine; title: Violent victimization of street sex workers / Steven P. Kurtz ... [et al.]; title: The entanglement of agency, violence, and law in the lives of women in prostitution / Lisa E. Sanchez; title: Homelessness and temporary living arrangements in the inner-city crack culture / Lisa Maher ... [et al.]; title: One woman's voice : stealing in college / Dorothy Allison; title: Women, work, and crime / Deborah R. Baskin and Ira Sommers; title: Property crime as it relates to women drug dealers / Barbara Denton and Pat O'Malley; title: Up it up : gender and the accomplishment of street robbery / Jody Miller; title: Women who kill in drug market situations / Henry H. Brownstein ... [et al.]; title: Pathways out of crime : crime desistance by female street offenders / Ira Sommers, Deborah R. Baskin, and Jeffrey Fagan.