The female offender : girls, women, and crime /
Chesney-Lind, Meda
The female offender : girls, women, and crime / Meda Chesmey-Lind - London : SAGE Publications, 1997 - xii, 220 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Women and the criminal justice system. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Girls' troubles and female delinquency -- Girls, gangs, and violence : rediscovering the liberated female crook -- The juvenile justice system and girls -- Trends in women's crime -- Drugs, violence, and women's crime -- Sentencing women to prison : equality without justice -- women's crime -- Sentencing women to prison : equality without justice -- Conclusion.
0803950993 RM292.86
Female offenders--United States
Female juvenile delinquents--United States
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
The female offender : girls, women, and crime / Meda Chesmey-Lind - London : SAGE Publications, 1997 - xii, 220 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Women and the criminal justice system. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Girls' troubles and female delinquency -- Girls, gangs, and violence : rediscovering the liberated female crook -- The juvenile justice system and girls -- Trends in women's crime -- Drugs, violence, and women's crime -- Sentencing women to prison : equality without justice -- women's crime -- Sentencing women to prison : equality without justice -- Conclusion.
0803950993 RM292.86
Female offenders--United States
Female juvenile delinquents--United States
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.