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Contents Introduction: New Insights into the Gendered Nature of Crime and Victimization 1 Karen Heimer and Candace Kruttschnitt Part I: Gendered Offending: Pathways, Situations, and Social Contexts 30 1. In and Out of Crime: A Life Course Perspective on Girls' Delinquency 31 Peggy C. Giordano, Jill A. Dienes and Stephen A. Cernkovich 2. Tough Girls: Dating and Young Women's Violence 82 Jody Miller and Christopher W. Mullins 3. No Place For Girls To Go: How Juvenile Court Officials Respond to Substance Abuse Among Girls and Boys 136 Hilary Smith, Nancy Rodriguez, and Marjorie S. Zatz 4. Killing One's Children: Maternal Infanticide and the Dark Figure of Homicide 185 Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy 5. The Crimes of Poverty: Economic Marginalization and the Gender Gap in Crime 234 Karen Heimer, Stacy Wittrock, and Halime Ünal Part II: Gendered Victimization: Trajectories, Social Contexts, and Justice 277 6. The Violent Victimization of Women: A Life Course Perspective 278 Candace Kruttschnitt and Ross Macmillan 7. Predictors of Violent Victimization: National Crime Victimization Survey Women and Jailed Women 335 Laura Dugan and Jennifer L. Castro 8. Female and Male Homicide Victimization Trends: A Cross-National Context 373 Gary LaFree and Gwen Hunicutt 9. Restorative Justice for Victims of Sexual Assault 420 Kathleen Daly and Sarah Curtis-Fawley Part III. Intersectionalities: Gender, Race, Poverty, and Crime 493 10. Making Sense of Intersections 494 Sally S. Simpson and Carole Gibbs 11. The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Violence Against Women 545 Janet L. Lauritsen and Callie Marie Rennison Contributors 580 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Crime -- Sex differences.
Female offenders.
Women -- Crimes against.