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Scholarship in criminology over the last few decades has often left little room for research and theory on how female offenders are perceived and handled in the criminal justice system. In truth, one out of every four juveniles arrested is female, and the population of women in prison has tripled in the past decade. Co-authored by Meda Chesney-Lind, one of the pioneers in the development of the feminist theoretical perspective in criminology, The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime, Third Edition redresses these issues.In an engaging style, authors Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko explore gender and cultural factors in women′s lives that often precede criminal behavior and address the question of whether female offenders are more violent today than in the past. The authors provide a revealing look at how public discomfort with the idea of women as criminals significantly impacts the treatment received by this offender population. The text covers additional topics such the interaction of sexism, racism, and social class inequalities that results in an increase of female offenders, as well as the imprisonment binge that has resulted in an increasing number of girls and women being incarcerated.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• 2 Girls' Troubles and "Female Delinquency"(p. 10)
• Trends in Girls' Arrests(p. 11)
• Boys' Theories and Girls' Lives(p. 16)
• Criminalizing Girls' Survival: Abuse, Victimization, and Girls' Official Delinquency(p. 24)
• Delinquency Theory and Gender: Beyond Status Offenses(p. 32)
• 3 Girls, Gangs, and Violence(p. 33)
• Girls Gone Wild?(p. 33)
• The Media, Girls of Color, and Gangs(p. 33)
• Trends in Girls' Violence and Aggression(p. 37)
• Girls, Robbery, and "Other" Assaults(p. 39)
• Girl Gang Membership(p. 42)
• Girls and Gangs: Qualitative Studies(p. 45)
• Labeling Girls Violent?(p. 54)
• Girls, Gangs, and Media Hype: A Final Note(p. 55)
• 4 The Juvenile Justice System and Girls(p. 57)
• "The Best Place to Conquer Girls"(p. 58)
• Girls and Juvenile Justice Reform(p. 62)
• Deinstitutionalization and Judicial Paternalism: Challenges to the Double Standard of Juvenile Justice(p. 64)
• Rising Detentions and Racialized Justice(p. 71)
• Offense Patterns of Girls in CustodyùBootstrapping(p. 80)
• Deinstitutionalization or Transinstitutionalization? Girls and the Mental Health System(p. 83)
• Girls' Sexuality in institutional Environments(p. 86)
• Human Rights Abuses in Girls' Institutions?(p. 87)
• Instead of Incarceration: What Could Be Done to Meet the Needs of Girls?(p. 91)
• 5 Trends in Women's Crime(p. 97)
• Unruly Women: A Brief History of Women's Offenses(p. 98)
• Trends in Women's Arrests(p. 100)
• How Could She? The Nature and Causes of Women's Crime(p. 102)
• Embezzlement(p. 103)
• Driving Under the Influence(p. 104)
• Larceny Theft/Shoplifting(p. 104)
• Big Time/Small Time(p. 106)
• Pathways to Women's Crime(p. 107)
• Beyond the Street Woman: Resurrecting the Liberated Female Crook?(p. 111)
• The Revival of the "Violent Female Offender"(p. 114)
• 6 Sentencing Women to Prison: Equality Without Justice(p. 119)
• Trends in Women's Crime: A Reprise(p. 120)
• Women, Violent Crimes, and the War on Drugs(p. 121)
• Getting Tough on Women's Crime(p. 125)
• Building More Women's Prisons(p. 129)
• Profile of Women in U.S. Prisons(p. 130)
• Childhoods of Women in Prison(p. 130)
• Current Offenses(p. 133)
• Property Crimes(p. 134)
• Drug Use Among Women in Prison(p. 135)
• Mothers Behind Bars(p. 136)
• Race and Women's Imprisonment(p. 138)
• Different Versus Equal?(p. 140)
• Prisons and Parity(p. 141)
• Reducing Women's Imprisonment Through Effective
• Community-Based Strategies and Programs(p. 148)
• Detention Versus Prevention(p. 150)
• 7 Female Offenders, Community Supervision, and Evidence-Based Practices(p. 153)
• Trends in Probation, Incarceration, and Parole(p. 154)
• Evidence-Based Practices and Gender-Neutral Supervision(p. 155)
• Challenging Gender-Neutral Risk-Driven Supervision(p. 162)
• Criminal History(p. 162)
• Education and Employment(p. 163)
• Financial(p. 164)
• Family and Marital(p. 165)
• Accommodation(p. 167)
• Alcohol and Drug Problems(p. 168)
• Emotional and Personal(p. 169)
• Challenging Gender-Neutral Supervision: Women's Histories of Victimization, Health Problems, and Child Care Needs(p. 171)
• Histories of Abuse(p. 171)
• Health and Children(p. 173)
• Supervision and Reintegration(p. 174)
• Moving Forward: Gender-Equitable Supervision for Female Offenders in the Community(p. 175)
• Promising Examples for Moving Forward(p. 177)
• 8 Conclusion(p. 181)
• References(p. 188)
• Index(p. 212)
• About the Authors(p. 223)

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CHOICE Review

Chesney-Lind's notable new book addresses the renewed concern about female criminality in general and crimes of younger females in particular. Chesney-Lind (women's studies, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa) has done an admirable job of putting into perspective the rank neglect of female criminality in both the academy and the wider society. She deals with the criminological "stag effect," wherein delinquency and crime are seen largely as a predominantly male enterprise, researched by male academics, and in the process marginalizing or almost completely ignoring the etiology and progression of female crime. One of the strongest chapters in the book, "Girls' Troubles and 'Female Delinquency'", suggests that the juvenile justice system victimizes many female juveniles by casting a wide net over "status" offenses that can be readily applied to many forms of "girl" delinquency. The author writes that "unlike boys, girls' victimization is specifically shaped by their status as young women," and further, "[d]elinquency theory has all but ignored girls and their problems." A must read. Upper-division undergraduates and above. J. C. Watkins Jr.; University of Alabama

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Meda Chesney-Lind, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii. Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, her testimony before Congress resulted in national support of gender responsive programming for girls in the juvenile justice system. Her recent publications include Policing Women's Bodies: Law, Crime, Sexuality, and Reproduction and the "Global War on Girls? Policing Girls' Sexuality and Criminalizing their Victimization (with Alida Merlo). Her earlier book on girls' use of violence, Fighting for Girls (co-edited with Nikki Jones), won an award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for "focusing America's attention on the complex problems of the criminal and juvenile justice systems."

In 2013, the Western Society of Criminology named an award after her honoring "significant contributions to the fields of gender, crime and justice" and made her the inaugural recipient. In 2017, she was been elected President of the American Society of Criminology; she is currently serving as past President of the Society.

Lisa Pasko , Assistant Professor, received her PhD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Lisa′s primary research and teaching interests include criminology, punishment, sexualities/gender studies, as well as methodological issues in conducting studies of crime and deviance. Her dissertation examined juvenile delinquency and justice in Hawaii, with particular attention on the differential effects institutional policies and behaviors have on boys and girls. She is co-author of "The Female Offender" and other articles that explore issues of gender and delinquency. Dr. Pasko teaches courses on criminology, the female offender, men and masculinities, and crime and punishment. For the past ten years, she has been involved in criminal justice research. As project coordinator for the University of Hawaii Youth Gang Project, she evaluated numerous prevention and intervention programs for at-risk youth. Dr. Pasko has published in a variety of areas, including an ethnography of stripping, pathways predictors of juvenile justice involvement, a feminist analysis of restorative justice initiatives, and evaluations of two girl offender programs. Her current research is funded by the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice and examines the treatment of sexual minority girls in youth corrections.