Routledge Library Editions: Women and Crime
Women and Crime
1st Edition
Edited
By S. K. Mukherjee, Jocelynne A. Scutt
June 20, 2017
First published in 1981. In the last few decades, interest in the study of crimes by women has increased. This interest has coincided with the accelerated momentum of the feminist movement and has led to claims that a rising female crime rate is somehow linked with the changing status of women. But...
Women and Deviance: Issues in Social Conflict and Change: An Annotated Bibliography
1st Edition
By Nanette J. Davis, Jone M. Keith
June 19, 2017
This book, first published in 1984, is a selective, annotated bibliography on women and deviance that includes historical, cross cultural, sociological, psychological, political, legal, philosophical, and social policy perspectives. This title is concerned with the origins, change, conflict, and ...
Annals of Crime: Some Extraordinary Women
1st Edition
By W. H. Williamson
May 18, 2017
This title, first published in 1930, examines the events of eleven female criminals and the conditions that surrounded their crimes. Annals of Crime explores whether the women mentioned would have committed these crimes if their circumstances had been different. This book will be of interest to ...
Female Crime: The Construction of Women in Criminology
1st Edition
By Ngaire Naffine
May 17, 2017
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 ...
Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology: The Intersections
1st Edition
Edited
By Dragan Milovanovic, Martin D. Schwartz
May 17, 2017
These essays, first published in 1996, focus on class, race, and gender as organising and analytical concepts in criminology. For many years, their importance in studying how the world relates to crime and its control was minimized or ignored. It is clear, however, that these concepts are of ...
Routledge Library Editions: Women and Crime
1st Edition
By Various
December 01, 2015
This set reissues five books on the subject of women and crime. The titles, which were originally published between 1930 and 1996, include a book of case-studies of female criminals, a comprehensive annotated bibliography on the social conflict and change of women in crime, and essays which examine...