The female offender : girls, women, and crime

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Label

The female offender : girls, women, and crime

Title remainder

girls, women, and crime

Statement of responsibility

Meda Chesney-Lind, Lisa Pasko, editors

Contributor

• Pasko, Lisa

Subject

• Delincuencia juvenil -- Estados Unidos
• Discriminación en la administración de la justicia penal -- Estados Unidos
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
• Female juvenile delinquents
• Female juvenile delinquents -- United States
• Female offenders
• Female offenders -- United States
• Mujeres delincuentes
• United States

Language

eng

Summary

Scholarship in criminology over the last few decades has often left little room for research and theory on how female offenders are perceived and handled in the criminal justice system. In truth, one out of every four juveniles arrested is female, and the population of women in prison has tripled in the past decade. Co-authored by one of the pioneers in the development of the feminist theoretical perspective in criminology, this work redresses these issues. The authors explore gender and cultural factors in women's lives that often precede criminal behavior and address the question of whether female offenders are more violent today than in the past. The authors provide a revealing look at how public discomfort with the idea of women as criminals significantly impacts the treatment received by this offender population. The text covers additional topics such the interaction of sexism, racism, and social class inequalities that results in an increase of female offenders, as well as the imprisonment binge that has resulted in an increasing number of girls and women being incarcerated

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

364.3/740973

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6046

LC item number

.F375 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography