Download or read book Patterns Trends and Control of Female Criminality in Nigeria written by Philomena I. Ozo-Eson and published by University Press, Nigeria. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the first surge of women's involvement in criminality in Nigeria in the 1980s and early 1990s, against the backdrop of the so-called 'home-grown' structural adjustment induced by the military dictatorship ruling the country at the time. The study thus makes the case that crime perpetrated by women tends to be rooted in protracted socio-economic crises and bad governance. In particular, the author considers: the treatment and punishment of women criminals and attitudes of prison officials to women prisoners and detainees, and the psychological and sociological aspects of female criminality.
Download or read book Sisters in Crime written by Freda Adler and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1975 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female Offenders written by Ruth T. Zaplin and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2008 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of female offenders in the United States is skyrocketing. Our "tough on crime" approach puts a female offender behind bars, but doesn't consider the factors eading to her incarceration. Female Offenders: Critical Perspectives and Effective Interventions, Second Edition proposes an alternative, one that truly addresses the needs of female offenders and the root issues connected to their maladaptive behaviors, trauma histories, and mental health problems. By focusing on these root issues, this text prepares future correctional managers and supervisors to rehabilitate and empower female offenders to reenter society in a meaningful and productive way.The Second Edition includes chapters written by experts in the field that discuss the diversity of issues facing female offenders in our culture from a variety of perspectives. Grounded in the relevant research and literature, this book blends theory with practice by presenting theories on the rehabilitation of female offenders alongside program models and effective strategies for reentry into society.
Download or read book Women s Crimes Criminology and Corrections written by Joycelyn M. Pollock and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, women have been an afterthought in criminal justice policymaking and the criminological enterprise. The study of criminology has largely been the study of criminal men, because women commit less crime than men. More recently, criminologists have paid increased attention to the population of female offenders, partly because of their growing numbers and partly because of the tens of thousands of children affected by having their mothers in prison or on supervised release. The recent attention, however, has not necessarily been a good thing for women, who are much more likely to be formally prosecuted and incarcerated today than in decades past. This policy shift has come about partly because of misinformed policies implemented to “help” women, and partly because of shifts in theorists’ beliefs and public perceptions that women and men are similar in their criminal motivations and should, therefore, be treated similarly. The controversy surrounding this perception is the focus of this book. To better comprehend the challenges facing women in the criminal justice system, the author (a winner of the Bruce Smith Sr. Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences) employs research findings and statistics to: describe the prevalence and patterns of women’s crimes; review criminological theories, specifically examining how well they explain female criminality; understand female juvenile offenders, reviewing crime rates, theories relating to female delinquency, and detention-related issues; look inside the women’s prison to better understand female prisoners and their world; examine classification and programming issues—particularly the impact of gender-specific programming; and explore the problems experienced by women upon release and the related issue of women’s recidivism.
Download or read book The Criminality of Women written by Otto Pollak and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tries to demonstrate that we have little choice but to accept the conclusion that the numerical sex differential in crime as visualized in the past is a myth.
Download or read book Changing Patterns of Female Criminality written by Tina M. Beranbaum and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Crime and Justice written by Susan K. Datesman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting some of the best and most recent work on the increasingly important subject of women and crime, this collection focuses on classical and contemporary accounts of the etiology of female crime, patterns of female criminal behavior, and the role and treatment of women in the criminal justice system.
Download or read book Women s Criminality in Europe 1600 1914 written by Manon van der Heijden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places female criminality within its everyday context, bringing together the most current research on crime and gender.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Gender Sex and Crime written by Rosemary Gartner and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors, Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy, have assembled a diverse cast of criminologists, historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and sociologists from a number of countries to discuss key concepts and debates central to the field. The Handbook includes examinations of the historical and contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as well as biological, psychological, and social science perspectives on gender, sex, and criminal activity. Several essays discuss the ways in which sex and gender influence legal and popular reactions to crime. An important theme throughout The Handbook is the intersection of sex and gender with ethnicity, class, age, peer groups, and community as influences on crime and justice. Individual chapters investigate both conventional topics - such as domestic abuse and sexual violence - and topics that have only recently drawn the attention of scholars - such as human trafficking, honor killing, gender violence during war, state rape, and genocide.
Download or read book Women Crime and Criminal Justice written by Rosemary Barberet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Crime and Criminal Justice is the winner of the Division of International Criminology’s Distinguished Book Award 2014 and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section's 2015 Outstanding Book Award and the first fully internationalised book to focus on women as offenders, victims and justice professionals. It provides background, as well as specialized information that allows readers to comprehend the global forces that shape women and crime; analyze different types of violence against women (in peacetime and in armed conflict); and grasp the challenges faced by women in justice professions such as the police, the judiciary and international peacekeeping. Provocative, highly topical, engaging and written by an expert in the field, this book examines the role of women in crime and criminal justice internationally. Topics covered include: the role of globalization and development in patterns of female offending and victimization, how a human rights framework can help explain women ́s crime, victimization and the criminal justice response, global women’s activism, international perspectives on violence against women, including femicide, violence in conflict and post conflict settings, sex work and sex trafficking, women’s access to justice, as well as the increased role of women in international criminal justice settings. This book will be essential reading for those involved in the study of development, human rights, governance, security sector reform, international relations and public health, as debates about these subjects are intrinsically linked to the issues surrounding women, crime and justice. It will also be useful for students taking courses on gender, crime and criminal justice, violence against women, international criminal justice and gender studies.
Download or read book Patterns of Female Criminality written by Vernetta D. Young and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patterns of Female Criminality written by Vernetta Diane Young and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female Crime and Delinquency written by Coramae Richey Mann and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Female Offender written by Meda Chesney-Lind and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 subject matter of The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime, Second Edition redresses the balance by providing critical insight into these issues. Bringing much-needed attention to the state of these often "invisible" wrongdoers, The Female Offender enlightens and intrigues readers including academics, researchers, and students in the areas of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and women’s studies. Likewise, anyone seeking cutting-edge information about a growing offender population will want to read this book.
Download or read book Female Crime written by Ngaire Naffine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender which underpin many contemporary crime theories. In reveals the ways in which male-centred norms dominated much analysis, and how crude stereotypes of women were a common attribute to the armoury of criminological research. Although feminists and other researchers are directing increasing attention to criminology, this was one of the first attempts to deploy feminist analyses developed within other disciplines to examine critically the range of modern criminological theories on women. Its findings demonstrate the importance of a program to create a new feminist criminology which recognises the female offender as a reasoning, purposeful subject. This title will be of interest to students of criminology.
Download or read book Gender and Crime written by Karen Heimer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Criminal Justice - Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.
Download or read book Prosecuting Women written by Ariadne Schmidt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period women played a prominent role in crime. At times they even made up half of all defendants. Female criminality was a typically urban phenomenon. Why do we find so many women before the Dutch criminal courts?
