Female Crime and Delinquency in Portugal

Sílvia Gomes is a postdoctoral grantee in Sociology and Criminology at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), University of Minho, Portugal (in cooperation with Florida State University, USA, and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), and a guest assistant professor at the University Institute of Maia, Portugal.Vera Duarte is an assistant professor at University Institute of Maia (ISMAI, Portugal); Executive Director of the Research Unit in Criminology and Behavioral Sciences (UICCC/ ISMAI), Portugal; and a researcher at Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), University of Minho, Portugal.

• Chapter 1. An Introduction to Female Crime and Delinquency; Sílvia Gomes and Vera Duarte.- Part I – Crime and Women.- Chapter 2. The Criminal Act at the Core of the Nexus Security-insecurity; Catarina Frois.- Chapter 3. Stalking by Women; Helena Grangeia and Margarida Santos.- Chapter 4. Onstage and off; Manuela Ivone Cunha.- Chapter 5. How do Foreign Women end up in Prison?; Sílvia Gomes.- Chapter 6. ‘To Kill or to be Killed’; Mafalda Ferreira, Sofia Neves and Sílvia Gomes.- Part II – Female Juvenile Delinquency.- Chapter 7. Heterosexual Dating Violence and Social Gender Relations; Sofia Neves and Joana Torres.- Chapter 8. Constructing Meaning about the Delinquency of Young Girls in Public Housing Neighbourhoods; Maria João Leote de Carvalho.- Chapter 9. Gender and Crime in the Life Pathways of Young Women Offenders; Raquel Matos.- Chapter 10. Girls and Transgressive Paths; Vera Duarte and Ana Margarida Guerreiro.