The female offender : girls, women, and crime - Chesney-Lind, Meda (London : SAGE Publications, 1997)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Female offenders -- United States; Female juvenile delinquents -- United States; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States