Coramae Richey Mann is Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of two books, Female Crime and Delinquency and Unequal Justice: A Question of Color. Mann is the recipient of the 1995 Bruce Smith Sr. award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

"The author has a data base that is rich in detail and unique in character. A study of this type is clearly needed and will make a major contribution to filling a void in the literature. It represents a sophisticated level of analysis on the subject of white, African American, and Latina homicide offenders." — Paula D. McClain, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Research Design 3. Ecological and Other Circumstances of the Homicide 4. The Murders of Intimates 5. Other Murder Victims 6. Are Women Getting Away With Murder? 7. A Profile of Today's Female Killer AppendicesAppendix A. The Research ProtocolAppendix B. CodebookAppendix C. Offenders' Prior Misdemeanor and Felony Arrests and ConvictionsAppendix D. Variables in the Regression Analysis of Prison Time Bibliography Index

Coramae Richey Mann is Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of two books, Female Crime and Delinquency and Unequal Justice: A Question of Color. Mann is the recipient of the 1995 Bruce Smith Sr. award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

"The author has a data base that is rich in detail and unique in character. A study of this type is clearly needed and will make a major contribution to filling a void in the literature. It represents a sophisticated level of analysis on the subject of white, African American, and Latina homicide offenders." — Paula D. McClain, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Research Design 3. Ecological and Other Circumstances of the Homicide 4. The Murders of Intimates 5. Other Murder Victims 6. Are Women Getting Away With Murder? 7. A Profile of Today's Female Killer AppendicesAppendix A. The Research ProtocolAppendix B. CodebookAppendix C. Offenders' Prior Misdemeanor and Felony Arrests and ConvictionsAppendix D. Variables in the Regression Analysis of Prison Time Bibliography Index

Coramae Richey Mann is Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of two books, Female Crime and Delinquency and Unequal Justice: A Question of Color. Mann is the recipient of the 1995 Bruce Smith Sr. award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

"The author has a data base that is rich in detail and unique in character. A study of this type is clearly needed and will make a major contribution to filling a void in the literature. It represents a sophisticated level of analysis on the subject of white, African American, and Latina homicide offenders." — Paula D. McClain, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Research Design 3. Ecological and Other Circumstances of the Homicide 4. The Murders of Intimates 5. Other Murder Victims 6. Are Women Getting Away With Murder? 7. A Profile of Today's Female Killer AppendicesAppendix A. The Research ProtocolAppendix B. CodebookAppendix C. Offenders' Prior Misdemeanor and Felony Arrests and ConvictionsAppendix D. Variables in the Regression Analysis of Prison Time Bibliography Index