The criminal justice system and women : offenders, victims, and workers / edited and compiled by Barbara Raffel Price, Natalie J. Sokoloff.

Includes bibliographical references.

The criminal law and women / Natalie J. Sokoloff and Barbara Raffel Price -- The etiology of female crime : a review of the literature / Dorie Klein -- Theoretical criminology and gender / Eileen Leonard -- Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice : toward a feminist theory of young women's crime / Meda Chesney-Lind -- Trends in female crime : it's still a man's world / Darrell Steffensmeier -- Rethinking women's imprisonment : a critical examination of trends in female incarceration / Meda Chesney-Lind -- Women of color and the criminal justice system / Coramae Richey Mann -- Processes of victimization and criminalization of Black women / Regina A. Arnold -- In search of the female urban "gangsta" : change, culture, and crack cocaine / Lisa Maher and Richard Curtis -- Mothers and children, drugs and crack : reactions to maternal drug dependency / Drew Humphries et al. -- Rape is the problem / Diana Scully -- Surmounting a legacy : the expansion of racial diversity in a local anti-rape movement / Nancy A. Matthews -- Fear and the perception of alternatives : asking "why battered women don't leave : is the wrong question / Angela Browne -- Minority women and domestic violence : the unique dilemmas of battered women of color / Christine E. Rasche -- Cops, courts, and woman battering / Kathleen J. Ferraro -- Femicide : sexist terrorism against women / Jane Caputi and Diana E.H. Russell -- Incest and resistance : patterns of father-daughter incest / Linda Gordon -- Sexual harassment : its first decade in court / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Violence against lesbians / Ruthann Robson -- Overwhelming evidence : gender bias in the courts / Lynn Hecht Schafran -- Decision making in sexual assault cases : do Black and female judges make a difference? / Cassia Spohn -- Women in law : theory, research, and practice / Sharyn L. Roach Anleu -- Invisible no more : a social history of women in U.S. policing / Dorothy Moses Schulz -- The interactive effects of race and sex on women police officers / Susan E. Martin -- Over the edge : one police woman's story of emotional and sexual harassment / Cheryl Gomez-Preston and Jacqueline Trescott -- Women in conflict : an analysis of women correctional officers / Joanne Belknap -- Affirmative action, multiculturalism, and criminology / Nanci Koser Wilson and Imogene L. Moyer -- The politics of research and activism : violence against women / Michelle Fine.