Women and crime : a reference handbook

Author(s)

• Warner, Judith Ann

Bibliographic Information

Women and crime : a reference handbook

Judith A. Warner

（Contemporary world issues）

ABC-CLIO, c2012

• : hardcopy

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• List of Tables Preface 1 History and Background Introduction Patriarchal Tradition: Greece, Rome, and Judeo-Christian Law Colonial and Revolutionary America: The 16th Century to 1776 Emergence of the United States: 1776 through the Antebellum Period 1890s-1930: The Progressive Era 1930s-1967: The Medical Model and Treatment Era 1967-1980: The Community-Based Era 1980s-Present: The Crime Control Model and Prison Warehousing Conclusion References 2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions Social Control and Reduced Women's Offending Violent Offending and Victimization Gendered Patterns of Victimization What Pathways Lead Girls and Women to Crime? What Are Causes and Correlates of Girls' Juvenile Offending? Gender Gap in Offending Why Are Certain Crimes More Likely to Be Committed by Men? Are Female Murderers Always "Mad or Bad"? Typology of Female Homicide Offenders Are Girls Becoming More Violent? Women's Drug Offending Social Strain and Drug-Related Nonviolent Crime Child Maltreatment: Sexual Abuse Criminalization of Drug Use by Pregnant Women Is Sex Work/Prostitution a Victimless Crime? What Is the Impact of Increasing Women's Imprisonment? How Does Women's Imprisonment Affect Children? Did Women's Equality Decrease the Gender Ratio of Crime? Solutions Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform What Are the Alternatives to Incarceration? Gender-Sensitive Strategies Against Women's Violent and Sexual Victimization References 3 The Globalization of Women's Crime and Victimization Transnational Drug Trafficking and Women Offenders Criminalization of Prostitution Partial Decriminalization and Legalization of Prostitution in Europe Global Lockdown of Women International Women's Victimization Human Trafficking and Slavery Violence against Women and International Advocacy Femicide Domestic Violence and Homicide Female Genital Mutilation Honor Killings Social Harm and Human Rights Solutions References 4 Chronology Antiquity and the Origins of Patriarchy: 10,000 bce-500 bce Republican Rome: 509 bc-27 bc Dominate: ad 284-476 (Western Empire)
• ad 284-565 (Eastern Empire) Middle Ages: 501-1500 Early Modern Period: 1501-1800 (Colonial and Early America) The Spread of Industrialization: 1801-1890 The Progressive Era: 1890s-1930 The Medical Model and Treatment Era: 1930s-1970 Community-Based Era: 1967-1980 Crime Control and Prison Warehousing Era: 1980s-Present 5 Biographies Freda Adler (1934-) Polly Adler (1900-1962) Casey Anthony (1986-) Kevin Bales (1952-) Arizona Donnie Clark Barker (1872-1935) Sandra "La Reina del Pacifico (Queen of the Pacific)" Avila Beltran (1960-) Mukhtaran Bibi (1972-) Sidney Biddle Barrow (1952-) Myra Colby Bradwell (1831-1894) Pat Brown (1955-) Laura Bullion (1876-1961) Bonnie Campbell (1948-) Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-) Meda Chesney-Lind (1947-) Sharon Cooper, MD (1952-) Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) Jaycee Dugard (1980-) Melissa Farley (1942-) Lea Weingarten Fastow (1961-) Heidi Fleiss (1966-) Mary Frith (1584-1659) Jean Harris (1923-) Kamala Harris (1964-) Patty Hearst (1954-) Leona Helmsley (1920-2007) Shauntay Henderson (1982-) Donna M. Hughes (1954-) Ruth Joan Bader Ginsberg (1933-) Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales
• 1966-) Elena Kagan (1960-) Sunitha Krishnan (1969-) Somaly Mam (1970 or 1971-) Blanche Moore (1933-) Susan Murphy-Milano (1958-) Chouchou Namegabe (1978-) Sandra Day O'Connor (1930-) Bonnie Parker (1911-1934) Kathleen Reichs (1950-) Janet Wood Reno (1938-) Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1955) Malika Saada Saar Robin Sax (1971-) Mana al Sharif (1979-) Rita J. Simon (1931-) Sonia Maria Sotomayor (1954-) Susan Smith (1971-) Martha Stewart (1941-) Karla Faye Tucker (1959-1998) Christina S. Walters (1979-) Aileen Wuornos (1956-2002) Andrea Yates (1965-) 6 Data and Documents The Dark Figure of Crime: Issues in Interpretation of Crime Data Uniform Crime Report Definitions Women and the Crime Rate Violent Crimes Nonviolent Crimes Public Order Crimes Race and Sex of Homicide and Rape Offenders Increasing Women's Imprisonment Despite Crime Decline Gendered and Racial Disparities in Imprisonment Aging Out and Desistance Incarcerated Noncitizen Women Women and the Law English Common Law Doctrine of Coverture Mann Act of 1910 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Women's Rate of Victimization in the United States Rape Violence against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 Sex Trafficking Torture Definition and Prostitution Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) Female Genital Circumcision in U.S. Criminal Law 7 Directory of Organizations and Government Agencies U.S. Agencies and Organizations National Information Organizations International Organizations International Advocacy Organizations National Advocacy Organizations Prison Advocacy Organizations Domestic Violence Advocacy Organizations Prostitution/Sex Work Advocacy Organizations Human/Sex Trafficking Advocacy Organizations Sex Offenders and Missing/Exploited Children Advocacy Nonprofit Organizations Women in Prison and Sentencing Law Reform Human Rights Domestic Violence Culturally Competent Responses to Domestic Violence Think Tanks 8 Print and Nonprint Resources Books and Articles General Works History of Women and Crime Women's Patterned Offending Minority Women's Criminal Offending Adolescent Girl's Offending History of Women's Victimization Women's Victimization Journals Feminist Criminology Women and Criminal Justice Victimization Hotlines Internet Resources International Organizations and Internet Resources Documentaries History of Women and the Law Women Offenders Homicide Drug Trafficking and Use Prostitution Human/Sex Trafficking Juvenile Delinquency Women in Prison: Offenders and Workers Women's Victimization Glossary Index About the Author

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Details

• NCID: BB10090281
• ISBN:
  • 9781598844238
• LCCN: 2012000448
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Santa Barbara, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 339 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV6046
  • DC23 : 364.3/74
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Female offenders
  • LCSH : Criminal justice, Administration of
  • LCSH : Women -- Crimes against
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07605706