Women, Crime and Criminal Justice

by Carol Hedderman and Loraine Gelsthorpe

Cowritten by two scholars with experience working in governmental criminal justice roles, this book reflects on the theme of gender in thinking about pathways both into and out of crime. Loraine Gelsthorpe and Carol Hedderman draw on new empirical evidence concerning both female crime persisters and desisters to explore the limitations of the application of general desistance theory to women specifically, while also looking at what works in preventing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447328787
• ISBN13: 9781447328780
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 176 Pages