Girls, Women, and Crime

Introduction PART I. GENDER AND CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORIZING: GENDER AT THE FOREFRONT Chapter 1. Different Ways of Conceptualizing Sex/Gender in Feminist Theory and Their Implications for Criminology - Kathleen Daly Chapter 2. Patriarchy Matters: Toward a Gendered Theory of Teen Violence and Victimization - Lyn Mikel Brown, Meda Chesney-Lind, and Nan Stein Chapter 3. Feminism in Criminology: Engendering the Outlaw - Dana M. Britton Chapter 4. An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African American Women's Experiences With Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach - Hillary Potter PART II. FEMALE JUVENILE DELINQUENTS: VICTIMIZATION, DELINQUENCY, AND THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM Chapter 5. At-Risk Girls and Delinquency: Career Pathways - Carla P. Davis Chapter 6. Violence Against Girls Provokes Girls' Violence: From Private Injury to Public Harm - Laurie Schaffner Chapter 7. The Gendered Nature of Risk Factors for Delinquency - Joanne Belknap and Kristi Holsinger Chapter 8. Moving Toward Justice for Female Juvenile Offenders in the New Millennium: Modeling Gender-Specific Policies and Programs - Barbara Bloom, Barbara Owen, Elizabeth Piper Deschenes, and Jill Rosenbaum PART III. THE WOMAN OFFENDER: WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES WITH DRUGS, CRIME, AND VIOLENCE Chapter 9. Murder as Self-Help: Women and Intimate Partner Homicide - Elicka S. L. Peterson Chapter 10. Women at Risk in Sex Work: Strategies for Survival - Priscilla Pyett and Deborah Warr Chapter 11. Dimensions of Women's Power in the Illicit Drug Economy - Tammy L. Anderson Chapter 12. The War on Drugs as a War Against Black Women - Stephanie R. Bush-Baskette PART IV. THE FEMALE OFFENDER AND INCARCERATION: BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER INCARCERATION Chapter 13. Women Under Lock and Key: A View From the Inside - Meda Chesney-Lind and Noelie Rodriguez Chapter 14. The Changing Nature of Interpersonal Relationships in a Women's Prison - Kimberly R. Greer Chapter 15. "Setting the Record Straight": Girls, Sexuality, and the Juvenile Correctional System - Lisa Pasko Chapter 16. People, Places, and Things: How Female Ex-Prisoners Negotiate Their Neighborhood Context - Andrea Leverentz Index About the Editors