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Title Across the spectrum of women and crime : theories, offending, and the criminal justice system / edited by Susan F. Sharp, Susan Marcus-Mendoza, Kathleen A. Cameron, Elycia S. Daniel-Roberson.

Publication Info. Durham : Carolina Academic Press, [2016]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  364.374 Ac77 2016    ---  Available
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Description xiv, 297 pages ; 23 cm
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Series PSU Faculty or Staff Author ; 2017-
Note Cameron, PSU Faculty or Staff Author.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Susan F. Sharp -- Theorizing about crime and women -- Exploring the relationship between gender and strain : two case studies / Alana Van Gundy-Yoder -- Female offenders as victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) : exploring Maslovian cracks in the system / Alisa Smith, G. Jeffrey Klepfer -- Wanda Jean Allen : a case of multiple marginality / Susan F. Sharp -- Arresting girls for dating violence : the importance of considering intersectionality / Alesha Durfee -- Varieties of female offenses -- Gender, romance and filicide / Wendy R. Dragon, Michelle Oberman, Cheryl L. Meyer -- Dancing, stripping, and escorting : women's experiences of money, drugs, and prostitution in the legal sex work industry / Gail A. Caputo -- "I'll hook you up" : women's experiences selling and trading methamphetamine / Robert Jenkot -- Terrorism and the female suicide bomber / Vesna Markovic -- The system responds -- Women and wrongful conviction : how? who? why? / Michael H. Fox -- Women's experiences with imprisonment : from silence to resistance / Jodie Michelle Lawston -- Inequality among female offenders : racial disparities in substance abuse and medical treatment among mothers in prison / Zina T. McGee, Kaneesha Williams, Nicollette Strickland, Tamara Dobson-Brown, Mykeya Foreman -- Second-chance grandparenting : how a new and renewed identity impacts the desistance process / Erin M. Kerrison, Ronet Bachman -- Staying out or going back? : a qualitative study of women prisoners, recidivism and reintegration / Susan F. Sharp, Juanita Ortiz -- Conclusion: Total system failure / Susan Marcus-Mendoza.
Subject Female offenders.
Women -- Crimes against.
Women -- Drug use.
Prostitution.
Women criminal justice personnel.
Female offenders. (OCoLC)fst00922629
Prostitution. (OCoLC)fst01079562
Women -- Crimes against. (OCoLC)fst01176618
Women criminal justice personnel. (OCoLC)fst01177542
Women -- Drug use. (OCoLC)fst01176658
Added Author Sharp, Susan F., 1951- editor.
Marcus-Mendoza, Susan, editor.
Cameron, Kathleen, 1951- editor.
Daniel-Roberson, Elycia S., editor.
ISBN 9781594600319 (alk. paper)
1594600317 (alk. paper)

 
    
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