Girls, Women and Crime: Selected Readings

by Meda Chesney-Lind (Editor)

Edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko, Girls, Women, and Selected Readings is a compilation of journal articles on the female offender written by leading researchers in the field of criminology and women’s studies. The individual sections in the book survey four major theories of female criminality, literature on female juvenile delinquents, women as offenders, and women in prison. Girls, Women, and Crime can be used as a stand-alone text or as an excellent supplement to Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko’s The Female Offender, Second Edition (2003). This dynamic reader is recommended for academics, researchers, and students in sociology, women’s studies, criminology, and criminal justice.

272 pages, Paperback

First published July 17, 2003