The Crimes Women Commit

The Punishments They Receive

By: Heather Ahn-Redding, Rita J., American University Simon

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Hardcover | 11 February 2005 | Edition Number 3

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In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty. The Crimes Women Commit: The Punishments They Receive represents the third edition of Women in Crime, a classic in the field by Rita J. Simon first published in 1975. This revised and updated edition takes advantage of the fact that women are more represented in official crime statistics today than they have been at any time since systemic national data has been available. Rita J. Simon and Heather Ahn-Redding present the most current demographic data and updates of the arrest, conviction, and prison statistics reported in the first and second editions as they examine issues such as women''s labor force participation, the percentage of female-headed households in which women are the caretakers of young children, as well as trends in how female crime statistics are reported. This classic text will become an essential tool for teachers and researchers within criminology and criminal justice, and among the subfields within sociology, psychology, and economics, where research on women who commit crimes has grown into a major area of interest.

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Rita Simon and Heather Ahn-Redding deliver a detailed and nuanced picture of the changing character of women's involvement in the criminal justice system since the early 1970s. Their balanced and probing analysis of the most recent data offers fresh insights into the crimes women commit, how they are treated by the courts, and how they fare in the prisons. This landmark work is must reading for anyone interested in female crime patterns over the last 35 years. -- Neil Gilbert, University of California Berkeley

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Non-Fiction Social Services & Welfare Crime & Criminology Penology & Punishment Law Offenders Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls

List of Tables	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Women and Crime in Review	p. 7
The Contemporary Women's Movement	p. 23
American Women: Their Demographic and Status Characteristics	p. 33
Arrest Statistics	p. 51
Women in Court	p. 71
Women in Prison	p. 91
Epilogue	p. 123
Women and Crime the World Over	p. 127
Women in Prison: A Comparative Assessment	p. 143
References	p. 167
Index	p. 177
About the Authors	p. 191
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