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Contemporary Research on crime, prisons, and social control has largely ignored women

This is the first reference work to offer the wealth of material on women and crime to a general audience. More than 200 authoritative contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia examine the subject from the perspectives of offenders, offenses, and theories on offending, victims and victimology, the criminal justice system, punishment and treatment.

Contemporary Research on crime, prisons, and social control has largely ignored women. Partial Justice, the only full-scale study of the origins and development of women's prisons in the United States, traces their evolution from the late eighteenth century to the present day. It shows that the character of penal treatment was involved in the very definition of womanhood for incarcerated women, a definition that varied by race and social class...

A handy source for basic statistics on prisoners, penal trends, and programs and services in America's prisons. Prisons in America covers such important subjects as punishment in the United States since colonial times, the most critical penal problems today, units for special populations, key penologists, and more. This work is a source for basic statistics on prisoners, penal trends, programs, services, and more. Listings of professional org...