Across the spectrum of women and crime
Subtitle: theories, offending, and the criminal justice system
By: edited by Susan F. Sharp, Susan Marcus-Mendoza, Kathleen A. Cameron, and Elycia S. Daniel-Roberson
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781594600319
Subjects: Female offenders; Crimes against; Drug use; Women criminal justice personnel; Prostitution; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Susan F. Sharp; title: Theorizing about crime and women; title: Exploring the relationship between gender and strain : two case studies / Alana Van Gundy-Yoder; title: Female offenders as victims of IPV : exploring Maslovian cracks in the system / Alisa Smith and G. Jeffrey Klepfer; title: Wanda Jean Allen : a case of multiple marginality / Susan F. Sharp; title: Arresting girls for dating violence : the importance of considering intersectionality / Alesha Durfee; title: Varieties of female offenses; title: Gender, romance and filicide / Wendy R. Dragon, Michelle Oberman & Cheryl L. Meyer; title: Dancing, stripping, and escorting : women's experiences of money, drugs, and prostitution in the legal sex work industry / Gail A. Caputo; title: "I'll hook you up" : women's experiences selling & trading methamphetamine / Robert Jenkot; title: Terrorism and the female suicide bomber / Vesna Markovic; title: The system responds; title: Women and wrongful conviction : how? whom? why? / Michael H. Fox; title: Women's experiences with imprisonment : from silence to resistance / Jodie Lawston; title: Inequality among female offenders : racial disparities in substance abuse and medical treatment among mothers in prison / Zina T. McGee, Kaneesha Williams, Nicollette Strickland, Tamara Dobson-Brown, Mykeya Foreman; title: Second-chance grandparenting : how a new and renewed identity impacts the desistance process / Erin M. Kerrison and Ronet Bachman; title: Staying out or going back? : a qualitative study of women prisoners, recidivism and reintegration / Susan F. Sharp and Juanita Ortiz; title: Conclusions: so, what does it all mean? / Susan Marcus-Mendoza and Susan F. Sharp.