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Author: Otto Pollak
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author tries to demonstrate that we have little choice but to accept the conclusion that the numerical sex differential in crime as visualized in the past is a myth.
Author: Frances Heidensohn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1996-02-02
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1349244457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second edition of Women and Crime is a carefully revised version of what has become the standard text on this subject. It provides a comprehensive review of findings about female criminality, women and criminal justice, and the treatment of female offenders. It also offers a clear analysis of theoretical perspectives, of images of deviant women and women's experiences of social control. A new section reviews developments during the past decade and outlines the shifts in social research and crime concerns. The bibliography has been thoroughly revised and updated.
Author: Manon van der Heijden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-30
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1108477712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlaces female criminality within its everyday context, bringing together the most current research on crime and gender.
Author: Brenda Russell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-09
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1461458714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFemale offenders are often perceived as victims who commit crimes as a self-defense mechanism or as criminal deviants whose actions strayed from typical ‘womanly’ behavior. Such cultural norms for violence exist in our gendered society and there has been scholarly debate about how male and female offenders are perceived and how this perception leads to differential treatment in the criminal justice system. This debate is primarily based upon theories associated with stereotypes and social norms and how these prescriptive norms can influence both public and criminal justice response. Scholars in psychology, sociology, and criminology have found that female offenders are perceived differently than male offenders and this ultimately leads to differential treatment in the criminal justice system. This interdisciplinary book provides an evidence based approach of how female offenders are perceived in society and how this translates to differential treatment within the criminal justice system and explores the ramifications of such differences. Quite often perceptions of female offenders are at odds with research findings. This book will provide a comprehensive evidence-based review of the research that is valuable to laypersons, researchers, practitioners, advocates, treatment providers, lawyers, judges, and anyone interested in equality in the criminal justice system.
Author: Ronald B. Flowers
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780786400690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the United States female crime has grown at a faster rate than male crime over the past couple of decades. Despite this, only limited research has been done by criminologists, psychologists and sociologists on this growing problem. This study examines female criminals; who they are, where they come from, what crimes they commit, why they commit criminal and delinquent acts, and how they are incarcerated. Part One discusses the extent and nature of female crime in the United States, and compares it to male crime. Part Two looks at early theories on the topic. Part Three explores the criminality and deviance of women offenders, while Part Four concentrates on the crimes and delinquency of juveniles. The work concludes with a discussion of female offenders in the custody of correctional authorities.
Author: Joycelyn M. Pollock
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780870847158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCriminal Women provides a thorough examination of female crime patterns based on broad, consistent and longstanding findings regarding crime rates. Using a critical approach, the author explores which criminological theories best explain female criminality, including classic as well as recent controversial theories. Topics discussed include post-modernism; problems of crime measurement; violent, property and drug crimes; juvenile delinquency; female gangs; race; classic theory versus positivism; biological, bio-social and psychological theories; social structure theories; social process theories; feminist criminology; and policy implications, including retributive versus restorative justice.
Author: Charlotte Barlow
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2016-09-14
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1447330986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to study the role coercion plays as a pathway into crime for women who are arrested alongside other defendants. Drawing on court files and newspaper accounts, it analyzes four cases of women who were arrested alongside a partner and who argued in their defense that they had been coerced. Charlotte Barlow examines these cases from a feminist perspective that allows her to highlight the importance of gender expectations and gendered discourse in both the trials themselves and the way the media covered them.
Author: Erica Rhodes Hayden
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2019-02-08
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0271084243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the lived experiences of women lawbreakers in the state of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860 through the records of more than six thousand criminal court cases. By following these women from the perpetration of their crimes through the state’s efforts to punish and reform them, Erica Rhodes Hayden places them at the center of their own stories. Women constituted a small percentage of those tried in courtrooms and sentenced to prison terms during the nineteenth century, yet their experiences offer valuable insight into the era’s criminal justice system. Hayden illuminates how criminal punishment and reform intersected with larger social issues of the time, including questions of race, class, and gender, and reveals how women prisoners actively influenced their situation despite class disparities. Hayden’s focus on recovering the individual experiences of women in the criminal justice system across the state of Pennsylvania marks a significant shift from studies that focus on the structure and leadership of penal institutions and reform organizations in urban centers. Troublesome Women advances our understanding of female crime and punishment in the antebellum period and challenges preconceived notions of nineteenth-century womanhood. Scholars of women’s history and the history of crime and punishment, as well as those interested in Pennsylvania history, will benefit greatly from Hayden’s thorough and fascinating research.
Author: Cesare Lombroso
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2004-01-16
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780822332466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His theory of the “born” criminal dominated discussions of criminology in Europe and the Americas from the 1880s into the early twentieth century. His book, La donna delinquente, originally published in Italian in 1893, was the first and most influential book ever written on women and crime. This comprehensive new translation gives readers a full view of his landmark work. Lombroso’s research took him to police stations, prisons, and madhouses where he studied the tattoos, cranial capacities, and sexual behavior of criminals and prostitutes to establish a female criminal type. Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman anticipated today’s theories of genetic criminal behavior. Lombroso used Darwinian evolutionary science to argue that criminal women are far more cunning and dangerous than criminal men. Designed to make his original text accessible to students and scholars alike, this volume includes extensive notes, appendices, a glossary, and more than thirty of Lombroso’s own illustrations. Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson’s introduction, locating his theory in social context, offers a significant new interpretation of Lombroso’s place in criminology.
Author: Meda Chesney-Lind
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1997-03-20
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Female Offender challenges the long-standing tradition of male dominated criminology theory and research, which has taken little or no account of gender differences.
