Chesney-Lind, Meda <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0803950993  RM292.86 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Female offenders--United States<br/>Female juvenile delinquents--United States<br/>Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.