This article examines the relationships between mothering, crime, and incarceration through
the narratives of thirty women incarcerated in a southwestern county jail. The responsibilities …

In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in
women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative …

Praise for Working with Female Offenders" Encyclopedic in scope and full of very relevant
work drawn from the fields of biology, psychology, criminology, and corrections, this book is …

With the number of incarcerated women rising in the United States, scholarship and activism
has focused more explicitly on the backgrounds, criminal contexts, and programming needs …

Objective: Beyond Violence (BV), a new prevention program for women with assaultive
offenses, demonstrated feasibility in previous studies. This study's purpose is to assess the …

Women convicted of violent offenses represent a small but important subpopulation of
women involved in the criminal justice system. Correctional administrators working with …

Epidemiological criminology is an emerging paradigm which explores the public health
outcomes associated with engagement in crime and criminal justice. This book engages …

Historically, women have been an afterthought in criminal justice policymaking and the
criminological enterprise. The study of criminology has largely been the study of criminal …

In this essay, we analyze two recent publications in Deviant Behavior on the consumption of
exotic dance:“Behavioral and Interactional Patterns of Strip Club Patrons: Tipping …

While the number of females imprisoned in America is significantly smaller than that of their
male counterparts, the growth rate of incarcerated women over the last two decades has …