Across the spectrum of women and crime : theories, offending, and the criminal justice system

Introduction / Susan F. Sharp

Theorizing about crime and women

Exploring the relationship between gender and strain : two case studies / Alana Van Gundy-Yoder

Female offenders as victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) : exploring Maslovian cracks in the system / Alisa Smith and G. Jeffrey Klepfer

Wanda Jean Allen : a case of multiple marginality / Susan F. Sharp

Arresting girls for dating violence : the importance of considering intersectionality / Alesha Durfee

Varieties of female offenses

Gender, romance and filicide / Wendy R. Dragon, Michelle Oberman & Cheryl L. Meyer

Dancing, stripping, and escorting : women's experiences of money, drugs, and prostitution in the legal sex work industry / Gail A. Caputo

"I'll hook you up" : women's experiences selling and trading methamphetamine / Robert Jenkot

Terrorism and the female suicide bomber / Vesna Markovic

The system responds

Women and wrongful conviction : how? who? why? / Michael H. Fox

Women's experiences with imprisonment : from silence to resistance / Jodie Michelle Lawston

Inequality among female offenders : racial disparities in substance abuse and medical treatment among mothers in prison / Zina T. McGee, Kaneesha Williams, Nicollette Strickland, Tamara Dobson-Brown, Mykeya Foreman

Second-chance grandparenting : how a new and renewed identity impacts the desistance process / Erin M. Kerrison and Ronet Bachman

Staying out or going back? : a qualitative study of women prisoners, recidivism and reintegration / Susan F. Sharp and Juanita Ortiz

Conclusion: total system failure / Susan Marcus-Mendoza