Gender and crime : patterns of victimization and offending / edited by Karen Heimer and Candace Kruttschnitt.

Contributor Heimer, Karen.

Imprint:New York : New York University, c2006.

Descriptionvi, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:New insights into the gendered nature of crime and victimization / Karen Heimer, Candace Kruttschnitt - In and out of crime : a life course perspective on girls' delinquency / Peggy C. Giordano, Jill A. Deines, Stephen A. Cernkovich - Stuck up, telling lies, and talking too much : the gendered context of young women's violence / Jody Miller, Christopher W. Mullins - No place for girls to go : how juvenile court officials respond to substance abuse among girls and boys / Hilary Smith, Nancy Rodriguez, Marjorie S. Zatz - Killing one's children : maternal infanticide and the dark figure of homicide / Rosemary Gartner, Bill McCarthy - The crimes of poverty : economic marginalization and the gender gap in crime / Karen Heimer, Stacy Wittrock, Halime Ünal - The violent victimization of women : a life course perspective / Candace Kruttschnitt, Ross Macmillan - Predictors of violent victimization : national crime victimization survey women and jailed women / Laura Dugan, Jennifer L. Castro - Female and male homicide victimization trends : a cross-national context / Gary LaFree, Gwen Hunnicutt - Restorative justice for victims of sexual assault / Kathleen Daly, Sarah Curtis-Fawley - Making sense of intersections / Sally S. Simpson, Carole Gibbs - The role of race and ethnicity in violence against women / Janet L. Lauritsen, Callie Marie Rennison.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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