Deborah Baskin, Ira Sommers

Casualties Of Community Disorder

Women's Careers In Violent Crime

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a detailed account of the criminal careers of 170 women who committed violent street crimes in New York City, this book describes their entry into criminal activities, their development into persistent street criminals, and, in some cases, their eventual move away from street crime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367314859
• ISBN-10: 0367314851
• Artikelnr.: 57732956

Autorenporträt

Deborah R. Baskin is chairperson of the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University at Los Angeles. Ira B. Sommers is associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University at Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Our Journey into the World of Women and Violent Crime
2 Crime and Urban Distress: Patterns of Violent Offending
3 Getting into Crime and Violence
4 Work and Crime and Crime as Work
5 The What
Where
When
Why
and Who of Violent Events
6 Getting Out of Crime and Violence
7 Breaking with the Past: Challenging Assumptions About Women and Violent Crime