In her own words : women offenders' views on crime and victimization : an anthology /
[edited by] Leanne Fiftal Alarid and Paul Cromwell.
- Los Angeles, Calif. : Roxbury Pub. Co., c2006.
- xiv, 245 p. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From victims to survivors to offenders : women's routes of entry and immersion into street crime / Mary E. Gilfus -- Black women's pathways to involvement in illicit drug distribution and sales / Lisa Maher, Eloise Dunlap, and Bruce D. Johnson -- Coping, resisting, and surviving: connecting women's law violations to their history of abuse / Elizabeth Comack -- Naming oneself criminal : gender differences in offenders' identity negotiation / Brenda Geiger and Michael Fischer -- I'm calling my mom : the meaning of family and kinship among Latina homegirls / Geoffrey P. Hunt, Kathleen MacKenzie, and Karen A. Joe-Laidler -- The lives and times of Asian-Pacific American women methamphetamine users / Karen A. Joe-Laidler -- The impact of mothering on criminal offending / Kathleen J. Ferraro and Angela M. Moe -- Women who have killed their children / Susan M. Crimmins ... [et al.] -- Do women play a primary or a secondary role in felony offenses? : a comparison by race/ethnicity / Leanne Fiftal Alarid ... [et al.] -- A woman's place is in the home : females and residential burglary / Scott H. Decker ... [et al.] -- Comparing female gangs of various ethnicities : young women of African-American, El Salvadoran, and Mexican descent / David C. Brotherton -- Young women and gang violence : gender, street offending, and violent victimization in gangs / Scott H. Decker and Jody Miller -- One woman's voice : my mother was a whore / Nikki Levine -- Violent victimization of street sex workers / Steven P. Kurtz ... [et al.] -- The entanglement of agency, violence, and law in the lives of women in prostitution / Lisa E. Sanchez -- Homelessness and temporary living arrangements in the inner-city crack culture / Lisa Maher ... [et al.] -- One woman's voice : stealing in college / Dorothy Allison -- Women, work, and crime / Deborah R. Baskin and Ira Sommers -- Property crime as it relates to women drug dealers / Barbara Denton and Pat O'Malley -- Up it up : gender and the accomplishment of street robbery / Jody Miller -- Women who kill in drug market situations / Henry H. Brownstein ... [et al.] -- Pathways out of crime : crime desistance by female street offenders / Ira Sommers, Deborah R. Baskin, and Jeffrey Fagan.
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Female offenders--United States. Criminal behavior--United States. Women with social disabilities--United States. Feminist criminology--United States.