Sisters in Crime Revisited: Bringing Gender Into Criminology

Description: Distinctive Features
* Surveys the pivotal works of leading scholars in the field of criminology, from the earliest female criminologists to contemporary scholars, providing a thorough examination of women and crime from the past to the present
* Pays homage to Freda Adler, whose scholarly and balanced research on female criminals lays the foundation for the discussion of the history and development of female offending
* Navigates through such important criminological questions as: Why do women offend? How do their paths into crime differ from men's? Why is there a gap in crime rates between men and women?
* Examines how conceptions of masculinity, often embedded in male peer groups, result in crime and in the victimization of women
* Addresses how female offenders interact with and are processed by the legal system, covering the complicated relationship between gender and justice

Review Quotes: "The range and quality of this modern panorama of female criminology towers above the dusty jacketed, yellowed pages of the era it revisits. What this important volume revisits, it
revitalizes and leaps exponentially beyond. Tributaries are now raging rivers, footsteps have turned into highways, and nuanced distinctions into competing camps. Current computational acrobatics can now analyze mountains of data to render empirical verdicts upon even our most cherished theoretical notions. Some will be substantiated, others rejected as we move steadily forward. Sisters in Crime Revisited honors those who fought to bring gender into criminology. It is a book that all should read."--Freda Adler, Author of Sisters in Crime