Women and Crime

A Text/Reader
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4129-8750-9
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 664 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 229 mm

Women and Crime: A Text/Reader, part of the text/reader series in criminology and criminal justice, incorporates contemporary and classic readings (some including policy implications) accompanied by student-friendly authored text. This unique format provides a theoretical framework and context for students. The comprehensive coverage of the book includes the history and theories of female offending, offenders and their crimes, processing and sentencing of female offenders, women in prison, women and victimization, women and work in the criminal justice system, juveniles and crime, and international crime. Race and diversity will be an underlying theme throughout the text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mallicoat, Stacy L.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
SECTION I. Women and Crime: An Introduction
SECTION II. Theories on Victimization and Offending
How to Read a Research Article
Readings:

1. The Gendered Nature of Risk Factors for Delinquency, by Joanne Belknap and Kristi Holsinger
2. Patriarchy, Crime, and Justice: Feminist Criminology in an Era of Backlash, by Meda Chesney-Lind
3. College Students' Crime-Related Fears on Campus: Are Fear-Provoking Cues Gendered? by Bonnie S. Fisher and David May
SECTION III. Women and Victimization: Rape and Sexual Assault
Readings:

4. Beyond Rape: The Pervasiveness of Sexual Victimization, by Bonnie S. Fisher, Leah E. Daigle, and Francis T. Cullen
5. Prevalence and Effects of Rape Myths in Print Journalism: The Kobe Bryant Case, by Ranae Franiuk, Jennifer L. Seefelt, Sandy L. Cepress, and Joseph A. Vandello
6. The Role of the New "Date Rape Drugs" in Attributions About Date Rape, by April L. Girard and Charlene Y. Senn
SECTION IV. Women and Victimization: Intimate Partner Abuse
Readings:

7. Interpersonal Violence Against Women: The Role of Men, by Martin D. Schwartz and Walter S. DeKeseredy
8. Silenced Voices and Structured Survival: Battered Women's Help Seeking, by Angela M. Moe
9. Intersections of Immigration and Domestic Violence: Voices of Battered Immigrant Women, by Edna Erez, Madalaine Adelman, and Carol Gregory
SECTION V. Women and Victimization: Stalking and Sexual Harassment
Readings:

10. Stalking in the Context of Intimate Partner Abuse: In the Victims' Words, by Heather Melton
11. Cyberstalking: An Exploratory Study of Students at a Mid-Atlantic University, by Karen L. Paullet, Daniel R. Rota, and Thomas T. Swan
12. Everyday Stranger Harassment and Women's Objectification, by Kimberly Fairchild and Laurie A. Rudman
SECTION VI. International Issues for Women and Crime
Readings:

13. Karo-Kari: A Form of Honour Killing in Pakistan, by Sujay Patel and Amin Muhammad Gadit
14. Life Histories and Survival Strategies Amongst Sexually Trafficked Girls in Nepal, by Padam Simkhada
15. Murder in Ciudad Juarez: A Parable of Women's Struggle for Human Rights, by Mark Ensalaco
SECTION VII. Girls and Juvenile Delinquency
Readings:

16. At-Risk Girls and Delinquency: Career Pathways, by Carla P. Davis
17. Violent Girls or Relabeled Status Offenders? An Alternative Interpretation of the Data, by Barry C. Feld
18. What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs: Findings From a Gender-Specific Focus Group Study, by Crystal A. Garcia and Jodi Lane
SECTION VIII. Female Offenders and Their Crimes
Readings:

19. Locked Up Means Locked Out: Women, Addiction, and Incarceration, by Vanessa Alleyne
20. Infanticide and Neonaticide: A Review of 40 Years of Research Literature on Incidence and Causes, by Theresa Porter and Helen Gavin
21. Understanding the Experiences of Street Level Prostitutes, by Celia Williamson and Gail Folaron
22. Girls, Gangs and Violence: Assessing the Evidence, by Susan Batchelor
SECTION IX. Processing and Sentencing of Female Offenders
Readings:

23. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Girls' Sentencing in the Juvenile Justice System, by Lori D. Moore and Irene Padavic
24. Ages of Chivalry, Places of Paternalism: Gender and Criminal Sentencing in Finland, by Candace Kruttschnitt and Jukka Savolainen
25. The Impact of Race, Gender, and Age on the Pretrial Decision, by Tina L. Freiburger and Carly M. Hilinski
SECTION X. The Incarceration of Women
Readings:

26. Women Offenders and the Gendered Effects of Public Policy, by Barbara Bloom, Barbar Owen, and Stephanie Covington
27. Throwaway Moms: Maternal Incarceration and the Criminalization of Female Poverty, by Suzanne Allen, Chris Flaherty, and Gretchen Ely
28. Collateral Costs of Imprisonment for Women: Complications of Reintegration, by Mary Dodge and Mark R. Pogrebin
SECTION XI. Women and Work in the Criminal Justice System: Police, Courts, and Corrections
Readings:

29. Survival in an "All Boy

Über Autor(innen)

Mallicoat, Stacy L.
Stacy L. Mallicoat is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice with the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice at California State University, Fullerton. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA in 1997 with a double major in Sociology (Crime and Deviance concentration) and Legal Studies. Stacy completed her Ph.D. in Sociology with an interest in Criminology at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2003. Her dissertation focused on the use of language and attribution assignment in the differential processing of male and female juveniles to probation supervision. Stacy joined the faculty of the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice at Cal State Fullerton in Fall 2003 where her research and teaching interests include issues on capital punishment, female offenders and juvenile delinquency. Prior to joining the faculty at CSUF, she worked for 6 years in the criminal justice field as a detention counselor, probation case-aide and program counselor for juvenile offenders.

Stacy L. Mallicoat is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice with the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice at California State University, Fullerton. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA in 1997 with a double major in Sociology (Crime and Deviance concentration) and Legal Studies. Stacy completed her Ph.D. in Sociology with an interest in Criminology at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2003. Her dissertation focused on the use of language and attribution assignment in the differential processing of male and female juveniles to probation supervision. Stacy joined the faculty of the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice at Cal State Fullerton in Fall 2003 where her research and teaching interests include issues on capital punishment, female offenders and juvenile delinquency. Prior to joining the faculty at CSUF, she worked for 6 years in the criminal justice field as a detention counselor, probation case-aide and program counselor for juvenile offenders.