Main description:

Discourse on female crime and violence has been increasing in recent years in response to hotly debated claims that women and girls are increasingly involved in violence and crime and the extent to which this reflects actual changes in behavior versus altered policies and practices (e.g., three strikes laws; drug offenses) that are increasingly criminalizing already marginalized girls and women (e.g., impoverished, ethnic minorities, prostitutes). An in-depth examination of the empirical knowledge base on violence and criminal offending in girls and women provides scholars and policy makers with critical information on this neglected topic.

Contents:

Part I. Theory and Etiology 1. The importance of the problem: Violence and crime in women Corine de Ruiter & Tonia Nicholls 2. Theories of female crime and violence Kerry Carrington 3. Trajectories into female delinquency Candice L. OdgersPart II. Assessment 4. Forensic psychological assessment Corine de Ruiter & Nancy Kaser-Boyd 5. Violence risk assessment in women Vivienne de Vogel 6. Psychopathy assessment in women Mette Felbert-Kreis 7. Assessment of self-harm and suicide Amanda Perry 8. Cross-cultural issues in forensic psychological assessment in women Barry Rosenfeld Part III. Treatment 9. Evidence-informed treatment of criminal and violent women Kelly Blanchette 10. Risk management and community supervision Larry Motiuk 11. Mother-baby programs/prison nursery Mary Byrne 12. Substance abuse treatment in women Ellen Tuchman 13. Alternatives to incarceration: Harm reduction and restorative justice Katherine Van WormenPart III. Offense Types/Special Populations 14. Violent offending in girls Debra Pepler 15. Neonaticide Philip Resnick 16. Filicide Ghitta Weizmann-Henelius 17. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and partner homicide Tonia Nicholls & John Hamel 18. Child maltreatment Corine de Ruiter 19. Sexual offending Franca Cortoni 20. Firesetting Theresa Gannon 21. Stalking Troy McEwan 22. Elder and parent abuse Karl Pillemer 23. Violent women in secure forensic settings (prison and forensic mental health) Caroline Logan 24. Women and gangs Meda Chesney-Lind 25. Women involved in white collar crime Mary Dodge 26. Female terrorist violence (TBD) 27. Female criminal and violent offending: Future directions Tonia Nicholls & Corine de Ruiter