Girls, Women and Crime: Selected Readings Book

	Introduction
1	Gender and Crime: A General Strain Theory Perspective	3
2	Explaining Girls' and Women's Crime and Desistance in the Context of Their Victimization Experiences: A Developmental Test of Revised Strain Theory and the Life Course Perspective	24
3	Different Ways of Conceptualizing Sex/Gender in Feminist Theory and Their Implications for Criminology	42
4	Feminism in Criminology: Engendering the Outlaw	61
5	Outside/Inside: The Violation of American Girls at Home, on the Streets, and in the Juvenile Justice System	77
6	The Girls in the Gang: What We've Learned From Two Decades of Research	97
7	Federal Juvenile Justice Policy and the Incarceration of Girls	115
8	Gender Bias and Juvenile Justice Revisited: A Multiyear Analysis	128
9	Murder as Self-Help: Women and Intimate Partner Homicide	147
10	Women at Risk in Sex Work: Strategies for Survival	157
11	Gender, Power, and Alternative Living Arrangements in the Inner-City Crack Culture	169
12	The War on Drugs as a War Against Black Women	185
13	Women Under Lock and Key: A View From the Inside	197
14	Reflections on Women's Crime and Mothers in Prison: A Peacemaking Approach	210
15	Living on the Outside: African American Women Before, During, and After Imprisonment	221
16	Challenges Incarcerated Women Face as They Return to Their Communities: Findings From Life History Interviews	231
	Index	247
	About the Editors	259