Women and Crime ─ A Reference Handbook

For high school students, undergraduates, scholars, and general readers, Warner (sociology and criminal justice, Texas A&M International U.) examines how women's patterns of offending have changed in the US, from the colonial period to the present; the legal history of women's limited rights before the twentieth century; their offending, the societal response, and solutions for crime, including rates of violent offending and victimization, pathways and causes of crime, drug offending, child sexual abuse, prostitution, and the effects of increasing imprisonment; and the globalization of women's crime and victimization, including drug trafficking, prostitution, domestic violence, femicide, female genital mutilation, honor killings, slavery, and social harm. A chronology, biographies of criminals and criminal justice professionals, data and documents, a directory of organizations and government agencies, and annotations of print and nonprint resources are included. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Judith A. Warner, PhD, is professor of sociology and criminal justice at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX.