Article: Fallen women: female crime and criminal justice in Canada.

Article: Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal ...
Corrections Compendium;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... techniques. Colleges and criminal justice agencies alike are ... for Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Primer. This ... for Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Primer is comprised ... ignored areas, such as female crime; explanatory research ...

Article: METH INCREASES FEMALE CRIME RATE IN NEBRASKA
Juvenile Justice Digest;  December 15, 2003 ;     407 words ... ... pressure to be "super" moms who can hold jobs and maintain a household. The Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice said meth crimes account for more than one-third of all convictions of women compared to 25 percent for men. The commission ...

Article: Drugs are link in 45% of Okla. female crime
Crime Control Digest;  August 1, 2003 ;     375 words ... ... five percent of female offenders entering Oklahoma prisons last year violated a drug law, according to the Oklahoma Criminal Justice Research Center. For both sexes, sentences for drug crimes tripled from 1986 to 2002, the center reported. David Wright ...

Article: Female crime increasing.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  May 9, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... acts. We don't accept that females can go that far. Yet studies show that female crime patterns are similar to those for males. There is no evidence that female crime is somehow intrinsically different, but there is evidence that female crimes ...

MODERNIZATION, GENDER ROLE CONVERGENCE AND FEMALE CRIME: A ...
International Journal of Comparative Sociology;  November 1, 2000 ;     509 words ... ... hypothesis suggests that as gender roles become more similar, female crime should increase toward the level of male crime. Cross ... modernization has been conceptualized as resulting in increased female crime, in part through its supposed effect on gender role convergence ...

Article: Female crime fascination detailed in new ...
M2 Best Books;  October 10, 2002 ;     374 words ... ... fascinated with crime. Providing explanations and examples using 26 crime stories from some of the most successful female crime writers, such as Ruth Rendell and Minette Walters, each story is preceded by a short but detailed introduction ...

Article: Utah: FEMALE CRIME RATE IS RISING AT 7% PER YEAR
Crime Control Digest;  September 24, 2004 ;     259 words ...The female crime rate is rising at an annual rate of about 7 percent compared to less than 2 percent for male offenders. The State Corrections ...