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Across the spectrum of women and crime : theories, offending, and the criminal justice system / edited by Susan F. Sharp, Susan Marcus-Mendoza, Kathleen A. Cameron, and Elycia S. Daniel-Roberson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Female offenders.
- Women--Crimes against.
- Women.
- Women--Drug use.
- Prostitution.
- Women criminal justice personnel.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 297 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Carolina Academic Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Susan F. Sharp
- Theorizing about crime and women
- Exploring the relationship between gender and strain : two case studies / Alana Van Gundy-Yoder
- Female offenders as victims of IPV : exploring Maslovian cracks in the system / Alisa Smith and G. Jeffrey Klepfer
- Wanda Jean Allen : a case of multiple marginality / Susan F. Sharp
- Arresting girls for dating violence : the importance of considering intersectionality / Alesha Durfee
- Varieties of female offenses
- Gender, romance and filicide / Wendy R. Dragon, Michelle Oberman & Cheryl L. Meyer
- Dancing, stripping, and escorting : women's experiences of money, drugs, and prostitution in the legal sex work industry / Gail A. Caputo
- "I'll hook you up" : women's experiences selling & trading methamphetamine / Robert Jenkot
- Terrorism and the female suicide bomber / Vesna Markovic
- The system responds
- Women and wrongful conviction : how? whom? why? / Michael H. Fox
- Women's experiences with imprisonment : from silence to resistance / Jodie Lawston
- 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
- Second-chance grandparenting : how a new and renewed identity impacts the desistance process / Erin M. Kerrison and Ronet Bachman
- Staying out or going back? : a qualitative study of women prisoners, recidivism and reintegration / Susan F. Sharp and Juanita Ortiz
- Conclusions: so, what does it all mean? / Susan Marcus-Mendoza and Susan F. Sharp.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594600319
- 1594600317
- OCLC:
- 933211385
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