Women, Gender, and Crime

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments SECTION I. Women, Gender, and Crime: Introduction The Influence of Feminism on Studies of Women, Gender, and Crime Women, Gender, and Crime Data Sources on Women as Victims and Offenders The Contributions of Feminist Methodology to Research on Women, Gender, and Crime Conclusion SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 1. Transformative Feminist Criminology: A Critical Rethinking of a Discipline READING 2. Grounding the Analysis of Gender and Crime: Accomplishing and Interpreting Qualitative Interview Research SECTION II. Theories of Victimization Victims and the Criminal Justice System Fear of Victimization Theories on Victimization SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 3. College Students' Crime-Related Fears on Campus: Are Fear-Provoking Cues Gendered? READING 4. Women From Different Ethnic Groups and Their Experiences with Victimization and Seeking Help SECTION III. Women, Gender, and Victimization: Rape and Sexual Assault Historical Perspectives on Rape and Sexual Assault Defining Sexual Victimization Prevalence of Rape and Sexual Assault Rape Myths Acquaintance Versus Stranger Assault Drug-Facilitated/Incapacitated Sexual Assault Spousal Rape Campus Sexual Assault LBGTQ Sexual Violence Racial Differences in Sexual Assault The Role of Victims in Sexual Assault Cases Conclusion SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 5. Student Perceptions of Sexual Assault Resources and Prevalence of Rape Myth Attitudes READING 6. Regretting It After? Focus Group Perspectives on Alcohol Consumption, Nonconsensual Sex, and False Allegations of Rape SECTION IV. Women, Gender, and Victimization: Intimate Partner Abuse and Stalking Defining and Identifying Intimate Partner Abuse The Cycle of Violence Victims of Intimate Partner Abuse Barriers to Leaving an Abusive Relationship Victim Experiences With Police and Corrections Stalking and Intimate Partner Violence Victims and Offenders of Stalking Cyberstalking Laws on Stalking Conclusion SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 7. "He Never Did Anything You Typically Think of as Abuse": Experiences With Violence in Controlling and Noncontrolling Relationships in a Nonagency Sample of Women READING 8. Women's Disclosure of Dating Violence: A Mixed Methodological Study SECTION V. International Issues in Gender-Based Violence Human Trafficking Rape as a War Crime Female Genital Mutilation Honor-Based Violence Conclusion SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 9. Human Trafficking and Moral Panic in Cambodia READING 10. Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina SECTION VI. Women, Gender, and Offending Theoretical Perspectives on Female Criminality SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 11. The Intersectional Alternative: Explaining Female Criminality READING 12. Has Criminology Awakened From Its "Androcentric Slumber"? SECTION VII. Girls, Gender, and Juvenile Delinquency The Rise of the Juvenile Court and the Sexual Double Standard The Nature and Extent of Female Delinquency The "Violent" Girl Technical Violations: The New Status Offense Risk Factors for Female Delinquency Meeting the Unique Needs of Delinquent Girls SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 13. Assessing the Status of Gender-Specific Programs Through the Lens of Juvenile Justice Staff READING 14. Trauma Among Lesbians and Bisexual Girls in the Juvenile Justice System SECTION VIII. Female Offenders and Their Crimes Women and Drugs Property Crime Prostitution Gender and Violence Mothers Who Kill Their Children SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 15. Cracked Perspectives: Reflections of Women and Girls in the Aftermath of the Crack Cocaine Era READING 16. "First and Foremost They're Survivors": Selective Manipulation, Resilience, and Assertion Among Prostitute Women SECTION IX. Processing and Sentencing of Female Offenders Stages of the Criminal Justice System Race Effects and the Processing of Female Offenders The War on Drugs and Its Effects for Women The Effects of Extralegal Factors on Sentencing Women The Effects of Sentencing Guidelines on Judicial Decision Making International Perspectives on the Processing of Female Offenders Conclusion SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS READING 17. The Impact of Race, Gender, and Age on the Pretrial Decision READING 18. Gender and Sentencing in the Federal Courts: Are Women Treated More Leniently? SECTION X. The Supervision of Women: Community Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry Gender-Responsive Programming for Women The Supervision of Women in the Community Women on Parole Reentry Issues for Incarcerated Women Recidivism and Female Offenders SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 19. "It's Their World, So You've Just Got to Get Through": Women's Experiences of Parole Governance READING 20. Reentering Women: The Impact of Social Ties on Long-Term Recidivism SECTION XI. Women, Gender, and Incarceration Historical Context of Female Prisons Contemporary Issues for Incarcerated Women Physical and Mental Health Needs of Incarcerated Women Children of Incarcerated Mothers: The Unintended Victims SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 21. Social Relationships and Group Dynamics Inside a Community Correction Facility for Women READING 22. The Impact of Incarceration on Women's Mental Health: Responses From Women in a Maximum-Security Prison SECTION XII. Women Professionals and the Criminal Justice System: Police, Corrections, and Offender Services Women in Policing Women in Corrections Community Corrections: Female Probation and Parole Officers Conclusion SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 23. The Effect of Rank on Police Women Coping With Discrimination and Harassment READING 24. Promotional Opportunities: How Women in Corrections Perceive Their Chances for Advancement at Work SECTION XIII. Women Professionals and the Criminal Justice System: Courts and Victim Services Women and the Law Women and the Judiciary Women and Work in Victim Services Conclusion SUMMARY KEY TERMS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WEB RESOURCES READING 25. Representation on the Courts? The Effects of Trial Judges' Sex and Race READING 26. Barriers to Working With Sexual Assault Survivors: A Qualitative Study of Rape Crisis Center Workers Glossary References Index About the Author