The Female Offender (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
240
Utgivningsdatum
2012-05-08
Upplaga
3
Förlag
SAGE Publications, Inc
Medarbetare
Pasko, Lisa J.
Illustrationer
illustrations
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226 x 150 x 15 mm
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318 g
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1
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23:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
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9781412996693

The Female Offender

Girls, Women, and Crime

av Meda Chesney-Lind
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-05-08
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Scholarship in criminology over the last few decades has often left little room for research and theory on how female offenders are perceived and handled in the criminal justice system. In truth, one out of every four juveniles arrested is female, and the population of women in prison has tripled in the past decade. Co-authored by Meda Chesney-Lind, one of the pioneers in the development of the feminist theoretical perspective in criminology, The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime, Third Edition redresses these issues.

In an engaging style, authors Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko explore gender and cultural factors in women's lives that often precede criminal behavior and address the question of whether female offenders are more violent today than in the past. The authors provide a revealing look at how public discomfort with the idea of women as criminals significantly impacts the treatment received by this offender population. The text covers additional topics such the interaction of sexism, racism, and social class inequalities that results in an increase of female offenders, as well as the imprisonment binge that has resulted in an increasing number of girls and women being incarcerated.
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Meda Chesney-Lind, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Womens Studies at the University of Hawaii.  Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, her testimony before Congress resulted in national support of gender responsive programming for girls in the juvenile justice system. Her recent publications include Policing Womens Bodies: Law, Crime, Sexuality, and Reproduction and the Global War on Girls? Policing Girls Sexuality and Criminalizing their Victimization (with Alida Merlo).  Her earlier book on girls use of violence, Fighting for Girls (co-edited with Nikki Jones), won an award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for focusing Americas attention on the complex problems of the criminal and juvenile justice systems.   

 

In 2013, the Western Society of Criminology named an award after her honoring significant contributions to the fields of gender, crime and justice and made her the inaugural recipient.  In 2017, she was been elected President of the American Society of Criminology; she is currently serving as past President of the Society. 

 

Lisa Pasko, Assistant Professor, received her PhD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Lisa's primary research and teaching interests include criminology, punishment, sexualities/gender studies, as well as methodological issues in conducting studies of crime and deviance. Her dissertation examined juvenile delinquency and justice in Hawaii, with particular attention on the differential effects institutional policies and behaviors have on boys and girls. She is co-author of "The Female Offender" and other articles that explore issues of gender and delinquency. Dr. Pasko teaches courses on criminology, the female offender, men and masculinities, and crime and punishment. For the past ten years, she has been involved in criminal justice research. As project coordinator for the University of Hawaii Youth Gang Project, she evaluated numerous prevention and intervention programs for at-risk youth. Dr. Pasko has published in a variety of areas, including an ethnography of stripping, pathways predictors of juvenile justice involvement, a feminist analysis of restorative justice initiatives, and evaluations of two girl offender programs. Her current research is funded by the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice and examines the treatment of sexual minority girls in youth corrections.

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Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction 2. Girls' Troubles and "Female Delinquency" 3. Girls, Gangs, and Violence: Rediscovering the "Liberated Female Crook" 4. The Juvenile Justice System and Girls 5. Trends in Women's Crime 6. Sentencing Women to Prison: Equality Without Justice 7. Female Offenders, Community Supervision, and Evidence-Based Practices 8. Conclusion References Index About the Authors

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