In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' Views on Crime and Victimization An Anthology

Name: In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' Views on Crime and Victimization An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780195330687

ISBN-10: 0195330684

ISBN-13: 9780195330687

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Authors: Leanne Fiftal Alarid, Paul Cromwell

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In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' Views on Crime and Victimization offers first-hand accounts of women's experience with crime and victimization and provides a rare opportunity for students to view the world from the perspective of the female offender. The text is designed to offer a surrogate experience--an inside view on how female law-breaking behavior overlaps with victimization in some cases, and how law breaking is a rational choice in others. The authors of each article befriend, observe, and interview women who are involved in lawbreaking behaviors and may also themselves be victimized. Topics include sex work, drugs, violent crime, property crime, desistance from crime, and women…

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List price: $109.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 9.88" wide x 6.81" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Section 1



From Victims to Survivors to Offenders: Women's Routes of Entry and Immersion Into Street Crime




Black Women's Pathways to Involvement in Illicit Drug Distribution and Sales




Coping, Resisting, and Surviving: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their History of Abuse




Naming Oneself Criminal: Gender Differences in Offenders' Identity Negotiation



Section 2



'I'm Calling My Mom': The Meaning of Family and Kinship Among Latina Homegirls




The Lives and Times of Asian-Pacific American Women Methamphetamine Users




The Impact of Mothering on Criminal Offending




Women Who Have Killed Their Children



Section 3



Do Women Play a Primary or a Secondary Role in Felony Offenses? A Comparison by Race/Ethnicity




A Woman's Place Is in the Home: Females and Residential Burglary




Comparing Female Gangs of Various Ethnicities: Young Women of African-American




Young Women and Gang Violence: Gender, Street Offending, and Violent Victimization in Gangs



Section 4



One Woman's Voice: My Mother Was a Whore




Violent Victimization of Street Sex Workers




The Entanglement of Agency, Violence, and Law in the Lives of Women in Prostitution




Homelessness and Temporary Living Arrangements in the Inner-City Crack Culture



Section 5



One Woman's Voice: Stealing in College




Women, Work, and Crime




Property Crime as It Relates to Women Drug Dealers




Up It Up: Gender and the Accomplishment of Street Robbery




Women Who Kill in Drug Market Situations




Pathways Out of Crime: Crime Desistance by Female Street Offenders