Table of Contents:
  • Crime, conflict theory, and the patriarchal society / Imogene L. Moyer
  • Patriarchy, power differentials, and women offenders / Marian Whitson and Imogene L. Moyer
  • Criminal codes, criminal justice and female offenders : New Jersey as a case study / Clarice Feinman
  • Police/citizen encounters : issues of chivalry, gender and race / Imogene L. Moyer
  • "Female crimes" or legal labels? : are statistics about women offenders representative of their crimes? / Candace Kruttschnitt
  • Critical problems of women in prison / Phyllis Jo Baunach
  • Project Met : a community based educational program for women offenders / Eddyth P. Fortune and Margaret Balbach
  • Probation, parole, power, and women offenders : from patriarchal parameters to participatory empowerment / Joseph W. Rogers
  • Rape and criminal justice system responses / Lynne Goodstein and Faith Lutze
  • Perceptions of woman battering / Joanne Belknap
  • Dealing with child sexual assault : the victim, the offender, and society / Martin D. Schwartz and Jody A. Miller
  • Sexual harassment in the criminal justice system / Edna Erez and Pamela Tontodonato
  • Women in police academy training : some aspects of organizational response / Diane Lovewell Pike
  • The changing status of women officers : gender and power in police work / Susan E. Martin
  • Women in the legal profession / Frances P. Bernat
  • The progress of women correctional officers in all-male prisons / Linda L. Zupan.