Women and Crime - An Encyclopedia of Issues and Cases

Addresses both key topics and key figures in female crime. This title provides topical essays about areas critical to the understanding of female criminals, such as the definition of women's crime, explanations of women's criminality, ethnic and age diversity in female criminals, and responses of the criminal justice system.

About the author

Vickie Jensen is professor of sociology at California State University, Northridge, CA. She has published in the areas of diversity and violence, family violence, gender and corrections, and homicide, most notably the book Why Women Kill: Gender Equality and Homicide.

Product details

• Authors: Vickie Jensen
• Assisted by: Karren Baird-Olson (Editor), Vickie Jensen (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9780313337130
• ISBN: 978-0-313-33713-0
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories