Women and crime [[electronic resource] ] : a reference handbook / / Judith A. Warner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465436203321
• Autore: Warner Judith Ann <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Barbara, Calif., : ABC-CLIO, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-54952-2; 1-59884-424-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary world issues
• Disciplina: 364.3/74
• Soggetti: Female offenders; Criminal justice, Administration of; Women - Crimes against; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1 History and Background; Introduction; Patriarchal Tradition: Greece, Rome, and Judeo-Christian Law; Colonial and Revolutionary America: The 16thCentury to 1776; Emergence of the United States: 1776 through the Antebellum Period; 1890s-1930: The Progressive Era; 1930s-1967: The Medical Model and Treatment Era; 1967-1980: The Community-Based Era; 1980s-Present: The Crime Control Model and Prison Warehousing; Conclusion; References; 2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions; Social Control and Reduced Women's Offending; Violent Offending and VictimizationGendered Patterns of Victimization; What Pathways Lead Girls and Women to Crime?; What Are Causes and Correlates of Girls' Juvenile Offending?; Gender Gap in Offending; Why Are Certain Crimes More Likely to Be Committed by Men?; Are Female Murderers Always ''Mad or Bad''?; Typology of Female Homicide Offenders; Are Girls Becoming More Violent?; Women's Drug Offending; Social Strain and Drug-Related Nonviolent Crime; Child Maltreatment: Sexual Abuse; Criminalization of Drug Use by Pregnant Women; Is Sex Work/Prostitution a Victimless Crime?; What Is the Impact of Increasing Women's Imprisonment?How Does ; Women's Imprisonment Affect Children?; Did Women's Equality Decrease the Gender Ratio of Crime?; Solutions; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform; What Are the Alternatives to Incarceration?; Gender-Sensitive Strategies; Against Women's Violent and Sexual Victimization; References; 3 The Globalization of Women's Crime and Victimization; Transnational Drug Trafficking and Women Offenders; Criminalization of Prostitution; Partial Decriminalization and Legalization of Prostitution in Europe; Global Lockdown of Women; International Women's VictimizationHuman Trafficking and Slavery; Violence against Women and International Advocacy; Femicide; Domestic Violence and Homicide; Female Genital Mutilation; Honor Killings; Social Harm and Human Rights Solutions; References,; 4 Chronology; Antiquity and the Origins of Patriarchy: 10,000 BCE-500 BCE; Republican Rome: 509 BC-27 BC; Middle Ages: 501-1500; Early Modern Period: 1501-1800 (Colonial and Early America); The Spread of Industrialization: 1801-1890; The Progressive Era: 1890s-1930; The Medical Model and Treatment Era: 1930s-1970; Community-Based Era: 1967-1980Crime Control and Prison Warehousing Era: 1980s-Present; 5 Biographies; Freda Adler (1934-); Polly Adler (1900-1962); Casey Anthony (1986-); Kevin Bales (1952-); Arizona Donnie Clark Barker (1872-1935); Sandra ''La Reina del Pacifico (Queen of the Pacific)'' Avila Beltran (1960-); Mukhtaran Bibi (1972-); Sidney Biddle Barrow (1952-); Myra Colby Bradwell (1831-1894); Pat Brown (1955-); Laura Bullion (1876-1961); Bonnie Campbell (1948-); Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-); Meda Chesney-Lind (1947-); Sharon Cooper, MD (1952-); Dorothea Dix (1802- 1887); Jaycee Dugard (1980-)
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on government data and interdisciplinary expertise, this timely book seeks to explain why the changing economic and legal status of women has not reduced the gender gap in criminal offending.