Girls, women, and crime : selected readings / editors, Meda Chesney-Lind, Lisa Pasko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chesney-Lind, Meda.

Pasko, Lisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Female offenders.

Women prisoners.

Female juvenile delinquents.

Criminology.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2004]

Summary:

Edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko, Girls, Women, and Crime: Selected Readings is a compilation of journal articles on the female offender written by leading researchers in the field of criminology and women's studies. The individual sections in the book survey four major areas: theories of female criminality, literature on female juvenile delinquents, women as offenders, and women in prison.

Girls, Women, and Crime can be used as a stand-alone text or as an excellent supplement to Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko's The Female Offender, Second Edition (2003). This dynamic reader is recommended for academics, researchers, and students in sociology, women's studies, criminology, and criminal justice.

Contents:

Gender and criminological theorizing: gender at the forefront

Gender and crime: a general strain theory perspective / Lisa Broidy and Robert Agnew

Explaining girls' and women's crime and desistance in the context of their victimization experiences / Rebecca S. Katz

Different ways of conceptualizing sex/gender in feminist theory and their implications for criminology / Kathleen Daly

Feminism in criminology: engendering the outlaw / Dana M. Britton

Female juvenile delinquents: experiences with victimization, gang involvement, and the justice system

Outside/inside: the violation of American girls at home, on the streets, and in the juvenile justice system / Leslie Acoca

The girls in the gang: what we've learned from two decades of research / Jody Miller

Federal juvenile justice policy and the incarceration of girls / Ira M. Schwartz, Martha W. Steketee, and Victoria W. Schneider

Gender bias and juvenile justice revisited: a multiyear analysis / John M. MacDonald and Meda Chesney-Lind

The woman offender: crime and punishment

Murder as self-help: women and intimate partner homicide / Elicka S.L. Peterson

Women at risk in sex work: strategies for survival / Priscilla Pyett and Deborah Warr

Gender, power, and alternative living arrangements in the inner-city crack culture / Lisa Maher ... [et al.]

The war on drugs as a war against black women / Stephanie R. Bush-Baskette

Women and prison: before, during, and after incarceration

Women under lock and key: a view from the inside / Meda Chesney-Lind and Noelie Rodriguez

Reflections on women's crime and mothers in prison: a peacemaking approach / Polly F. Radosh

Living on the outside: African American women before, during, and after imprisonment / Zelma Weston Henriques and Norma Manatu-Rupert

Challenges incarcerated women face as they return to their communities: findings from life history interviews / Beth E. Richie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761928286

OCLC:

51936887