Women Criminals : An Encyclopedia of People and Issues [2 volumes]

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The two-volume Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and IssueS?/i> addresses both key topics and key figures in women's crime. The first volume provides topical essays about areas critical to the understanding of female criminals, such as the definition of women's crime, explanations of women's criminality, ethnic and age diversity in female criminals, and responses of the criminal justice system. The second volume comprises biographical entries profiling women who are obviously criminals, such as Aileen Wuornos and Myra Hindley, and also women who were victims of circumstance, unjust laws, or narrowly applied definitions of crime, such as Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sophie Scholl. In addition to highlighting the breadth of women's criminality, these portraits provide a holistic, multifaceted understanding of the dynamics of women's crime and why it occurs, connecting the individual stories to the larger social-scientific perspectives. Care has been taken to include the women's own voices and perspectives where possible and to address the intentions and reasoning of the system that responded to their criminality.

Author(s): Vickie Jensen
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Year: 2011

Language: English
Pages: 769

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
VOLUME ONE: ISSUES RELATED TO WOMEN AND CRIME......Page 18
Introduction: Women Criminals and the Crimes They Commit......Page 20
Women and Criminal Offending: Societal-Level Perspectives......Page 42
Women and Criminal Offending: Individual-Level Perspectives......Page 70
Women and Sexual Offending......Page 98
Age and Women's Offending......Page 116
Diversity and Women's Criminal Offending......Page 138
Victimization and Women's Offending......Page 156
Political Women and Criminalization......Page 180
Issues in Women's Crime around the World......Page 194
Women and Policing......Page 204
Women, Law, and the Legal System......Page 226
Criminal Justice System and Women: Corrections and Correctional Issues......Page 258
VOLUME TWO: WOMEN AND CRIME: BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILES, A–Z......Page 288
Ah Toy......Page 294
Allen, Wanda Jean......Page 296
Allitt, Beverly......Page 299
Anthony, Casey......Page 301
Aquash, Anna......Page 306
Atkins, Susan......Page 308
Baker, Josephine......Page 314
Barfield, Velma......Page 316
Barker, Ma......Page 319
Barrows, Sydney......Page 320
Bàthory, Elizabeth......Page 323
Beets, Betty......Page 325
Bell, Mary......Page 327
Bevan, Catherine......Page 329
Bishop, Amy......Page 331
Bobbitt, Lorena......Page 335
Bombeek, Cecile......Page 338
Bonny, Anne......Page 340
Borden, Lizzie......Page 342
Borgia, Lucrezia......Page 345
Boyd, Belle......Page 347
Brinvilliers, Marquise de......Page 350
Broderick, Betty......Page 352
Brown, Debra......Page 354
Brown, Joyce Ann......Page 358
Buck, Marilyn......Page 360
Cheng Chui Ping......Page 364
Cheng I Sao......Page 366
Clark, Judith......Page 369
Cleghorn, Mildred......Page 372
Cook, Ann......Page 374
Cora, Belle......Page 377
Corday, Charlotte......Page 379
Cotton, Mary......Page 381
d'Aquino, Iva (Tokyo Rose)......Page 384
Dann, Laurie......Page 387
Davis, Angela......Page 389
Devi, Phoolan......Page 391
Devlin, Bernadette......Page 394
Dhanu......Page 396
Doss, Nannie......Page 399
Drexler, Melissa......Page 401
Dumont, Eleanor......Page 404
Dyer, Amelia......Page 406
Ebadi, Shirin......Page 410
Edmonds, Sarah......Page 412
Ellis, Ruth......Page 415
Everleigh, Ada......Page 417
Everleigh, Minna......Page 420
Fair, Laura......Page 424
Falling, Christine......Page 425
Fallmer, Clara......Page 427
Fisher, Amy......Page 429
Fleiss, Heidi......Page 432
Fonda, Jane......Page 433
Frank, Antoinette......Page 436
Fugate, Caril......Page 439
Garcia, Guin......Page 444
Gillars, Mildred Elizabeth Sisk (Axis Sally)......Page 446
Gindorf, Debbie......Page 448
Goldman, Emma......Page 451
González Valenzuela, Delfina; María de Jesús González; and Eva González......Page 454
Good, Sandra......Page 456
Gottfried, Gessina......Page 458
Greenhow, Rose......Page 460
Gunness, Belle......Page 463
Harris, Clara......Page 466
Harris, Jean......Page 468
Hayashi, Masumi......Page 470
Hearst, Patty......Page 474
Helmsley, Leona......Page 477
Hindley, Myra......Page 479
Hollander, Xaviera......Page 481
Homolka, Karla......Page 485
Howard, Katherine......Page 487
Huckaby, Melissa......Page 490
Huerta, Dolores......Page 493
Hughes, Francine......Page 496
Hutchinson, Anne......Page 499
Jegado, Hélène......Page 502
Jones, Genene......Page 504
Kasabian, Linda......Page 508
Kelly, Gladys Cannon......Page 511
Khaled, Leila......Page 515
Krenwinkel, Patricia......Page 518
La Voisin, Catherine......Page 524
Lafave, Debra......Page 525
Lebron, Lolita......Page 528
Letourneau, Mary Kay......Page 530
Lewis, Teresa......Page 532
Little, Joan......Page 538
Mandela, Winnie......Page 542
Mandelbaum, Mother......Page 545
Mapp, Dollree......Page 547
Marie Antoinette......Page 551
McKnight, Regina......Page 553
Metyard, Sarah; and Sarah Morgan Metyard......Page 557
Montespan, Marquise de......Page 559
Newton, Frances......Page 562
Osborn, Sarah......Page 566
Pagan, Dylcia......Page 570
Parker, Bonnie......Page 571
Parks, Rosa......Page 574
Rachals, Terri......Page 578
Riefenstahl, Leni......Page 580
Riggs, Christina......Page 583
Rosenberg, Ethel......Page 585
Sanger, Margaret......Page 590
Scholl, Sophie......Page 593
Shakur, Assata......Page 595
Shigenobu, Fusako......Page 598
Smith, Susan......Page 601
Snyder, Ruth......Page 603
Soliah, Kathleen......Page 606
Spooner, Bathsheba......Page 608
Steinem, Gloria......Page 610
Stewart, Martha......Page 613
Stone, Lucy......Page 616
Surratt, Mary......Page 619
Suu Kyi, Aung San......Page 622
Taketa, Gwen......Page 628
Tinning, Marybeth......Page 630
Tubman, Harriet......Page 632
Tucker, Karla Faye......Page 635
Van Houten, Leslie......Page 640
Van Lew, Elizabeth......Page 644
Wall, Rachel......Page 648
Wanrow, Yvonne......Page 650
West, Rosemary......Page 652
Whitney, Charlotte Anita......Page 654
Wuornos, Aileen......Page 658
Yaklich, Donna......Page 662
Yates, Andrea......Page 663
Young, Lila......Page 666
Zwanziger, Anna......Page 670
APPENDICES: STATISTICS AND REPORTS ON WOMEN AND CRIME......Page 672
A. Arrests......Page 673
B. Offenders According to Victimization Data......Page 694
C. Gender, Prisoners, and the Death Penalty......Page 697
D. Death Penalty for Female Offenders, by Victor Streib......Page 707
Selected Bibliography......Page 730
Index......Page 736
About the Editor and Contributors......Page 758