Sisters In Crime Revisited: Bringing Gender Into Criminology

Distinctive Features * Surveys the pivotal works of leading scholars in the field of criminology, from the earliest female criminologists to contemporary scholars, providing a thorough examination of women and crime from the past to the present * Pays homage to Freda Adler, whose scholarly and balanced research on female criminals lays the foundation for the discussion of the history and development of female offending * Navigates through such important criminological questions as: Why do women offend? How do their paths into crime differ from men's? Why is there a gap in crime rates between men and women? * Examines how conceptions of masculinity, often embedded in male peer groups, result in crime and in the victimization of women * Addresses how female offenders interact with and are processed by the legal system, covering the complicated relationship between gender and justice

• | Author: Francis T. Cullen|Pamela Wilcox|Jennifer L. Lux|Cheryl Lero Jonson
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 31, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 430 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0199311188
• | ISBN-13: 9780199311187