The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime

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The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime

Name: The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime
ISBN: 9781483387567

Meda Chesney-Lind, Lisa Pasko

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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 Meda Chesney-Lind, one of the pioneers in the development of the feminist theoretical perspective in criminology, The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime, Third Edition redresses these issues.
In an engaging style, authors Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko 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 ...

Categorias:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences

Ano:

2013

Edição:

3rd

Editora:

SAGE Publications

Idioma:

english

Páginas:

241