Casualties Of Community Disorder: Women's Careers In Violent Crime [Hardcover]

Unlike the outcry over street crime committed by males, concerns about women and violence have centered primarily on their roles as victims of sexual and physical violence committed by strangers and by males in intimate relationships. Rarely is violence by women considered in the development or testing of theories of aggression.The book provides a

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

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.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.US? 1998 Taylor & Francis