Sisters in Crime Revisited
Bringing Gender Into Criminology
Edited by Francis T. Cullen, Pamela Wilcox, Jennifer L. Lux, and Cheryl Lero Jonson
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Part I. Celebrating Freda Adler
1. Sisters in Crime: A Criminological Classic, Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox
2. Sisters in Criminology: The Origins of Feminist Criminology, Alida V. Merlo and Joycelyn M. Pollock
Part II. The Development of Offending
3. A Biosocial Theory of Female Offending, Jamie Vaske, Danielle Boisvert, and John Paul Wright
4. Life-Course-Persistent Female Offending, Nicole Leeper Piquero and Alex Piquero
5. Gendered Pathways into Delinquency, Meda Chesney-Lind
6. Becoming a Female Felony Offender, Leanne Fiftal Alarid and Emily M. Wright
Part III. Social Context of Female Crime
7. The Social Worlds of Girls in Gangs, Madeleine Novich and Jody Miller
8. A Social Network Perspective of Gender and Crime, Dana L. Haynie and Brian Soller
9. Women, Work, and White-Collar Crime, Mary Dodge
Part IV. Social Context of Female Victimization
10. Gendered Opportunity and Victimization, Pamela Wilcox, Bonnie S. Fisher, and Nicole V. Lasky
11. The Neighborhood Context of Women's Experiences with Violent Crime, Sally S. Simpson and Candace Kruttschnitt
Part V. Key Theoretical Issues
12. Can the Gender Gap in Offending Be Explained?, Jennifer Schwartz and Darrell J. Steffensmeier
13. Does Feminist Theory Matter?, Amanda M. Petersen, Emily J. Salisbury, and Jody L. Sundt
Part VI. Patriarchy, Masculinity, and Crime
14. Masculinities and Crime, James W. Messerschmidt and Stephen Tomsen
15. Male Peer Support Theory, Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz
Part VII. Women, Justice, and Corrections
16. Gender and Criminal Justice Processing, Nicholas Corsaro, Jesenia M. Pizarro, and Sandra Lee Browning
17. Understanding the Female Prison Experience, Mary K. Stohr, Cheryl Lero Jonson, and Jennifer L. Lux
18. A Gendered Theory of Offender Rehabilitation, Paula Smith and Sarah M. Manchak
Index