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A unique, two-volume study that examines female crime and the women who commit it.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments VOLUME ONE ISSUES RELATED TO WOMEN AND CRIME Introduction: Women Criminals and the Crimes They Commit Vickie Jensen and Kristyan M. Kouri Women and Criminal Offending: Societal-Level Perspectives Jennifer Schwartz and Arina Gertseva Women and Criminal Offending: Individual-Level Perspectives Vickie Jensen, Lizette Barrientos, and Annie Neimand Women and Sexual Offending Rebecca Trammell and Sharon S. Oselin Age and Women's Offending Carolyn Rebecca Block and Nicole T. Carr Diversity and Women's Criminal Offending Vickie Jensen, Yasmin Serrato, Nayla Huq, and Crystal Kelly Victimization and Women's Offending Vickie Jensen and Venessa Garcia Political Women and Criminalization Karren Baird-Olson and Carlos Moran Issues in Women's Crime around the World Rosemary Barberet Women and Policing Jennifer C. Gibbs Women, Law, and the Legal System Celesta A. Albonetti Criminal Justice System and Women: Corrections and Correctional Issues Barbara A. Koons-Witt and Gillian M. Pinchevsky VOLUME TWO WOMEN AND CRIME: BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILES, A–Z A Ah Toy Allen, Wanda Jean Allitt, Beverly Anthony, Casey Aquash, Anna Atkins, Susan B Baker, Josephine Barfield, Velma Barker, Ma Barrows, Sydney Bàthory, Elizabeth Beets, Betty Bell, Mary Bevan, Catherine Bishop, Amy Bobbitt, Lorena Bombeek, Cecile Bonny, Anne Borden, Lizzie Borgia, Lucrezia Boyd, Belle Brinvilliers, Marquise de Broderick, Betty Brown, Debra Brown, Joyce Ann Buck, Marilyn C Cheng Chui Ping Cheng I Sao Clark, Judith Cleghorn, Mildred Cook, Ann Cora, Belle Corday, Charlotte Cotton, Mary D d'Aquino, Iva (Tokyo Rose) Dann, Laurie Davis, Angela Devi, Phoolan Devlin, Bernadette Dhanu Doss, Nannie Drexler, Melissa Dumont, Eleanor Dyer, Amelia E Ebadi, Shirin Edmonds, Sarah Ellis, Ruth Everleigh, Ada Everleigh, Minna F Fair, Laura Falling, Christine Fallmer, Clara Fisher, Amy Fleiss, Heidi Fonda, Jane Frank, Antoinette Fugate, Caril G Garcia, Guin Gillars, Mildred Elizabeth Sisk (Axis Sally) Gindorf, Debbie Goldman, Emma González Valenzuela, Delfina; María de Jesús González; and Eva González Good, Sandra Gottfried, Gessina Greenhow, Rose Gunness, Belle H Harris, Clara Harris, Jean Hayashi, Masumi Hearst, Patty Helmsley, Leona Hindley, Myra Hollander, Xaviera Homolka, Karla Howard, Katherine Huckaby, Melissa Huerta, Dolores Hughes, Francine Hutchinson, Anne J Jegado, Hélène Jones, Genene K Kasabian, Linda Kelly, Gladys Cannon Khaled, Leila Krenwinkel, Patricia L la Voisin, Catherine Lafave, Debra Lebron, Lolita Letourneau, Mary Kay Lewis, Teresa Little, Joan M Mandela, Winnie Mandelbaum, Mother Mapp, Dollree Marie Antoinette McKnight, Regina Metyard, Sarah; and Sarah Morgan Metyard Montespan, Marquise de N Newton, Frances O Osborn, Sarah P Pagan, Dylcia Parker, Bonnie Parks, Rosa R Rachals, Terri Riefenstahl, Leni Riggs, Christina Rosenberg, Ethel S Sanger, Margaret Scholl, Sophie Shakur, Assata Shigenobu, Fusako Smith, Susan Snyder, Ruth Soliah, Kathleen Spooner, Bathsheba Steinem, Gloria Stewart, Martha Stone, Lucy Surratt, Mary Suu Kyi, Aung San T Taketa, Gwen Tinning, Marybeth Tubman, Harriet Tucker, Karla Faye V Van Houten, Leslie Van Lew, Elizabeth W Wall, Rachel Wanrow, Yvonne West, Rosemary Whitney, Charlotte Anita Wuornos, Aileen Y Yaklich, Donna Yates, Andrea Young, Lila Z Zwanziger, Anna Appendices: Statistics and Reports on Women and Crime A. Arrests B. Offenders According to Victimization Data C. Gender, Prisoners, and the Death Penalty D. Death Penalty for Female Offenders, by Victor Streib Selected Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors

About the Author

Vickie Jensen is professor of sociology at California State University, Northridge, CA.

Reviews

Women Criminals will work well in larger public libraries and academic libraries that support a criminal justice curriculum.
*Library Journal*

Upper-level students will find the references that conclude each essay helpful as well as the identification of future research needs that most essays contain. Appendixes present a statistical snapshot of women and crime based on data from the FBI and Bureau of Justice. A selected bibliography and profiles of the editor and contributors conclude the work. Recommended for public and academic libraries.
*Booklist*

Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.
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