The female offender
Subtitle: girls, women, and crime
By: Meda Chesney-Lind.
Series: Women and the criminal justice system
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Female offenders -- United States; Female juvenile delinquents -- United States; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Girls' troubles and female delinquency; title: Girls, gangs, and violence : rediscovering the liberated female crook; title: The juvenile justice system and girls; title: Trends in women's crime; title: Drugs, violence, and women's crime; title: Sentencing women to prison : equality without justice; title: Conclusion.