The female offender : girls, women, and crime / Meda Chesney-Lind, Lisa Pasko
Imprint
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2004
Edition
2nd ed
Descript
xi, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Girls/ troubles and "female delinquency" 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
SUBJECT
Female offenders -- United States
Female juvenile delinquents -- United States
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States