NCJ Number
93434
Editor(s)
L Bowker
Date Published
1981
Length
439 pages
Annotation
Twenty-four articles, mostly with a feminist perspective, discuss women as criminals, women as victims of crime, and processing female offenders in the criminal justice system.
Abstract
Studies of statistics and theory on female crime cover American women and crime, criminological theory and its implications for women, changing levels of female property crime, patterns of female property crime, the economics of female criminality, and gender differences in delinquency. Studies of specific crimes committed by women look at women in organized crime during the Progressive Era; the woman participant in the riots in Washington, D.C., in 1968; and prostitution in Nevada. Papers in the section on women as victims of crime discuss results of the National Crime Survey Program, rape and other sexual assaults, and wife beating. The final section looks at women, the police, and the courts and women in corrections. Specific articles examine barriers to becoming a 'successful' rape victim, judicial paternalism and the female status offender, and police processing of female offenders. Additional articles consider sex-role stereotypes and justice for women, imprisoned women and their children, gender differences in prisoner subcultures, and reform school families. References accompany individual papers. For separate papers, see NCJ-93435 to 93442.