| Description |
xiii, 549 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Garland library of sociology ; vol. 22 |
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Garland reference library of social science ; v. 796 |
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Garland library of sociology ; vol. 22
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Garland reference library of social science ; v. 796
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| Contents |
An examination of gender issues that were observed in the proportion of arrests over time / Benjamin S. Wright -- The role of gender in pretrial decision making / Noreen L. Channels, Sharon D. Herzberger -- Gender and crime : different sex, different treatment? / Frank H. Julian -- A comparative analysis of female felons : some recent trends in sentencing severity compared with a matched sample of male offenders / Dean J. Champion -- Women in prison / Rita J. Simon -- Females behind prison bars / Concetta C. Culliver -- Intimate abuse within an incarcerated female population : rates, levels, criminality, a continuum, and some lessons about self-identification / William R. Blount, Joseph B. Kuhns III, Ira J. Silverman -- Little girls grown up : the perils of institutionalization / Clemens Bartollas -- Criminalizing of pregnant women drug abusers / Renée Goldsmith Kasinsky -- A radical analysis of a treatment program for cocaine-abusing mothers / Sue Mahan, Della Alice Prestwood -- Organizational barriers : conducting evaluation research in female correctional institutions / Phyllis A. Gray, Melvin C. Ray |
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Women and crime : an overview / Concetta C. Culliver -- The putative problem of female crime / Craig J. Forsyth, Shelley B. Roberts, Robert Gramling -- The changing complexion of female crimes : a sex and race comparison, 1960-1990 / Thomas J. Durant, Jr. -- Trends in female crime, 1960-1990 / Darrell Steffensmeier, Cathy Streifel -- Gender issues / Joan McCord -- Women and the newest profession : females as white-collar criminals / Jay Albanese -- Compared to what? : delinquent girls and the similarity or differences issue / Ruth Seydlitz -- Stealing and dealing : the drug war and gendered criminal opportunity / Nanci Koser Wilson -- Sister against sister : female intrasexual homicide / Coramae Richey Mann -- Prostitution in the Netherlands : it's just another job! / Ineke Haen Marshall, Chris E. Marshall -- Female serial killers / Jack Levin, James Alan Fox -- Women and crime in the United States : a Marxian explanation / Polly F. Radosh -- Female criminality : an economic perspective / Martin Milkman, Sarah Tinkler -- |
| Analysis |
Criminals Women |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Female offenders -- United States.
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Women prisoners -- United States.
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| Author |
Culliver, Concetta C., 1935-
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| LC no. |
92027490 |
| ISBN |
0815304846 |
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