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Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending
Contributor(s): Heimer, Karen (Editor), Kruttschnitt, Candace (Editor)
ISBN: 0814736742     ISBN-13: 9780814736746
Publisher: New York University Press
OUR PRICE:   $88.11  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Criminology
Dewey: 364.374
LCCN: 2005017343
Series: New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.74" W x 9.26" (1.24 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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While rates of violent victimization have declined, women are still much more likely than men to be attacked by an intimate partner. Simultaneously, women's involvement in the criminal justice system, as arrestees and sentenced offenders, is increasing. Criminologists are struggling to understand these patterns of offending and victimization and how they can be prevented. Composed of original contributions by many of the top scholars in criminology, these essays will help to transform our understanding of women's relation to crime.
Composed of original contributions by many of the top scholars in criminology, these essays will help to transform our understanding of women's relation to crime.
Contributors: Jennifer L. Castro, Stephen A. Cernkovich, Sarah Curtis-Fawley, Kathleen Daly, Laura Dugan, Jill A. Dienes, Rosemary Gartner, Carole Gibbs, Peggy C. Giordano, Karen Heimer, Gwen Hunnicutt, Candace Kruttschnitt, Gary LaFree, Janet L. Lauritsen, Ross Macmillan, Bill McCarthy, Jody Miller, Christopher W. Mullins, Callie Marie Rennison, Nancy Rodriguez, Sally S. Simpson, Hilary Smith, Stacy Wittrock, Halime nal, and Marjorie S. Zatz.

Contributor Bio(s): Heimer, Karen: - Karen Heimer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa.Kruttschnitt, Candace: - Candace Kruttschnitt is in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto and is the co-author of Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California.