Girls, Women, and Crime: Selected Readings

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Introduction PART I: Gender and Criminological Theorizing: Gender at the Forefront 1 Gender and Crime: A General Strain Theory Perspective - L. Broidy and R. Agnew 2 Explaining Girls' and Women's Crime and Desistance in the Context of Their Victimization Experiences - R. S. Katz 3 Different Ways of Conceptualizing Sex/Gender in Feminist Theory and Their Implications for Criminology - K. Daly 4 Feminism in Criminology: Engendering the Outlaw - D. M. Britton Part II: Female Juvenille Delinquents: Experiences With Victimization, Gang Involvement, and the Justice System 5 Outside/Inside: The Violation of American Girls at Home, on the Streets, and in the Juvenile Justice System - L. Acoca 6 The Girls in the Gang: What We Have Learned from Two Decades of Research - J. Miller 7 Gender Bias and Juvenile Justice Revisited: A Multiyear Analysis - J. M. MacDonald and M. Chesney-Lind 8 Federal Juvenile Justice Policy and the Incarceration of Girls - I. M. Schwartz, M. Steketee, and V. Schneider Part III: The Woman Offender: Crime and Punishment 9 Murder as Self-Help: Women and Intimate Partner Homicide - E. Peterson 10 Women at Risk in Sex Work: Strategies for Survival - Priscilla Pyett, and D. Warr 11 Gender, Power, and Alternative Living Arrangements in Inner-City Crack Culture - L. Maher, E. Dunlap, B. Johnson, and A. Hamid 12 War on Drugs as a War Against Black Women - S. Bush-Baskette Part IV: Women and Prison: Before, During and After Incarceration 13 Women under Lock and Key - M. Chesney-Lind and N. Rodriguez 14 Reflections on Women's Crime and Mothers in Prison: A Peacemaking Approach - P. F.Radosh 15 Living on the Outside: African American Women Before, During, and After Imprisonment - Z. W. Henriques and N. Manatu-Rupert 16 Challenges Incarcerated Women Face as They Return to Their Communities: Findings from Life History interviews - B. Richie Index About the Editors