Drawing on government data and interdisciplinary expertise, this
timely book seeks to explain why the changing economic and legal
status of women has not reduced the gender gap in criminal
offending. Women and Crime: A Reference Handbook examines how
women's patterns of offending have changed over time in America,
from the Colonial period to the present. The book sets the stage
with a historical overview of women's criminal activity. Subsequent
chapters cover such topics as changes in women's status and
patterns of offending; the impact of childhood abuse on the
development of criminality; and how changes in law, the War on
Drugs, and other crime policy have, in fact, increased the
frequency of women's imprisonment and arrests. International
issues, such as legalization of prostitution, sex trafficking, and
women's involvement in organized crime, including drug cartels, are
also explored. Each chapter examines theory, research, law, policy,
and key players in the evolving response to women's crime patterns.
Throughout the work, the author links women's status,
victimization, and offending patterns, and suggests how crime
control policy, far from saving women, is increasingly making it
impossible for female offenders to live on the outside. Quotations
from women offenders that explain their actions and situate them in
life-history trajectories associated with criminal behavior
Biographies of key theorists and researchers, prominent women
offenders, and advocates for gender and justice Uniform Crime
Report and Bureau of Justice statistics on girls' and womens'
offending relative to men Primary source documents on legislation
impacting women's offending and victimization A chronology of
women's offending and legislation from the Colonial era to the
present A glossary of key criminal justice terms that apply to
women offenders An interdisciplinary bibliography of reference
works, monographs, journal articles, Internet sites, and
streaming/DVD resources
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