Women's rates of imprisonment and incarceration in jails grew faster than men's rates during
the prison boom in the United States. Even during the recent period of modest decline in …

The status of research on human trafficking has been characterized as methodologically
inadequate and lacking sufficient theoretical framework necessary for solution development …

Qualitative approaches for identifying and characterizing women's pathways to crime are
being augmented by quantitative methods. This study applies quantitative taxonomic …

In the fourth edition of Essential Criminology, authors Mark M. Lanier, Stuart Henry, and
Desire. M. Anastasia build upon this best-selling critical review of criminology, which has …

Using meta-analytic approaches, we examined whether interventions for women offenders
are effective in reducing recidivism, as well as whether gender-informed and gender-neutral …

Feminist pathways research has influenced theoretical development by challenging the
gender neutrality of mainstream explanations for offending and victimization. This approach …

Numerous studies examine the causal factors of entrance into prostitution and find economic
marginalization, substance addiction, and interpersonal networks are common reasons …

This study explores outcome variation among women offenders who participated in gender-
responsive substance abuse treatment (GRT). To identify subgroups of participants that may …

The empirical and theoretical knowledge base on criminal careers is heavily influenced by
data on boys and men. What pathways do women follow in and out of crime through their …

The current study proposes a heuristic model for classification of female offenders into
groups based on key variables relevant to women's backgrounds and programming needs …