Girls, women, and crime
Subtitle: selected readings
By: editors, Meda Chesney-Lind, Lisa Pasko.
Contributors: Chesney-Lind, Meda.; Pasko, Lisa.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Female offenders.; Women prisoners.; Female juvenile delinquents.; Criminology.; Feminism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and criminological theorizing; title: Introduction: Gender and criminological theorizing: gender in the forefront; title: Gender and crime: a general strain theory perspective / Broidy L. and Agnew, R.; title: Explaining girls' and women's crime and desistance in the context of their victimization experiences / Katz, R.S.; title: Different ways of conceptualizing sex/gender in feminist theory and their implications for criminology / Daly, K.; title: Feminism and criminology: engendering the outlaw / Britton, D.M.; title: Female juvenile delinquents; title: Introduction: female juvenile delinquents: experiences with victimization, gang involvement, and the justice system; title: Outside/inside: the violation of girls at home, on the streets, and in the juvenile justice system / Acoca, L.; title: The girls in the gang: what we have learned from two decades of research /  Miller, J.; title: Federal juvenile justice policy and the incarceration of girls / Schwartzstein, R.M. and M. Steketee; title: Gender bias and juvenile justice revisited: a multiyear analysis / Macdonald, J.M. and M. Chesney-Lind; title: The woman offender; title: Introduction: the woman offender: crime and punishment; title: Murder as self-help: women and intimate partner homicide / Peterson, E.; title: Women at risk in sex work: strategies for survival / Pyett, P. and D. Warr; title: Gender, power, and alternative living arrangements in inner-city crack culture / Maher, L., Dunlap, E., Johnson, B., and A. Hamid; title: War on drugs as a war against black women / Bush-Baskette, S.; title: Women and prison; title: Introduction: women and prison: before, during, and after incarceration; title: Women under lock and key / Chesney-Lind, M. and N. Rodriguez; title: Reflections on women's crime and mothers in prison: a peacemaking approach / Radosh, P.F.; title: Living on the outside: African-American women before, during, and after imprisonment / Weston-Henriques, Z. and N. Manatu-Rupert; title: Challenges incarcerated women face as they return to their communities: findings from life history interviews / Richie, B.