In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' Views on Crime and Victimization: An Anthology Book

Section I: Women's Pathways to Crime: Linking Victimization and Criminalization
1. From Victims to Survivors to Offenders: Women's Routes of Entry and Immersion Into Street Crime, Mary E. Gilfus
2. Black Women's Pathways to Involvement in Illicit Drug Distribution and Sales, Lisa Maher, Eloise Dunlap, and Bruce D. Johnson
3. Coping, Resisting, and Surviving: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their History of Abuse, Elizabeth Comack
4. Naming Oneself Criminal: Gender Differences in Offenders' Identity Negotiation, Brenda Geiger and Michael Fischer
Section II: The Nexus Between Criminal Behavior and Family
5. 'I'm Calling My Mom': The Meaning of Family and Kinship Among Latina Homegirls, Geoffrey P. Hunt, Kathleen MacKenzie, and Karen A. Joe-Laidler
6. The Lives and Times of Asian-Pacific American Women Methamphetamine Users, Karen A. Joe-Laidler
7. The Impact of Mothering on Criminal Offending, Kathleen J. Ferraro and Angela M. Moe
8. Women Who Have Killed Their Children, Susan M. Crimmins, Sandra C. Langley, Henry H. Brownstein, and Barry J. Spunt
Section III: Crime Partnerships, Networks, and Gangs
9. Do Women Play a Primary or a Secondary Role in Felony Offenses? A Comparison by Race/Ethnicity, Leanne Fiftal Alarid, James W. Marquart, Velmer S. Burton Jr., Francis T. Cullen, and Steven J. Cuvelier
10. A Woman's Place Is in the Home: Females and Residential Burglary, Scott H. Decker, Richard Wright, Allison Redfern, and Dietrich Smith
11. Comparing Female Gangs of Various Ethnicities: Young Women of African-American, El Salvadoran, and Mexican Descent, David C. Brotherton
12. Young Women and Gang Violence: Gender, Street Offending, and Violent Victimization in Gangs, Scott H. Decker and Jody Miller
Section IV: Economic Marginality and Survival Crimes
13. One Woman's Voice: My Mother Was a Whore, Nikki Levine
14. Violent Victimization of Street Sex Workers, Steven P. Kurtz, Hilary L. Surratt, James A. Inciardi, and Marion C. Kiley
15. The Entanglement of Agency, Violence, and Law in the Lives of Women in Prostitution, Lisa E. Sanchez
16. Homelessness and Temporary Living Arrangements in the Inner-City Crack Culture, Lisa Maher, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, and Ansley Hamid
Section V: Women's Crime as Rational Choice
17. One Woman's Voice: Stealing in College, Dorothy Allison
18. Women, Work, and Crime, Deborah R. Baskin and Ira Sommers
19. Property Crime as It Relates to Women Drug Dealers, Barbara Denton and Pat O'Malley
20. Up It Up: Gender and the Accomplishment of Street Robbery, Jody Miller
21. Women Who Kill in Drug Market Situations, Henry H. Brownstein, Barry J. Spunt, Susan M. Crimmins, and Sandra C. Langley
22. Pathways Out of Crime: Crime Desistance by Female Street Offenders, Ira Sommers, Deborah R. Baskin, and Jeffrey Fagan