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Women and Crime: A Reference Handbook

Women and Crime: A Reference Handbook

Warner, Judith

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary World Issues (Hardcover)

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1598844237
ISBN13: 9781598844238
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Jul 19 2012
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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