female crime rates have changed over time. We also conclude that, within the different categories, women defendants in …While traditional criminology has ignored the historical dimension of female crime, social historical literature has … studies focusing on changes in crime, prosecution, conviction, and punishment patterns over time, as well as studies in …

engage "women's rights" - focusing on sexual suffering and victimization -- to frame interventions, attract media and …

Although women?s police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no … been done. This paper estimates the effects of women?s police stations in Brazil on female homicides, as a measure of the … most severe form of domestic violence. Given that a high fraction of female deaths among women ages 15 to 49 years can be …

women who kill. We suggest that, in the absence of the offence of defensive homicide, women like Williams may in the future …

reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led … to an overall reduction in adult women's property crime arrests of about 4%, with the strongest effects for women ages 25 …

This article compares the background, motivation, pathways and prison experiences of Arab/Palestinian women who were … also interviewed and court and prison files examined to validate the women's background and criminal history. Although both … groups transgressed gender expectations by venturing into male-dominated worlds (crime and terrorism), the data point to …

-collar crime. Women's financial victimization was a common theme of the popular press, economic journals and fiction. These …In Victorian society, women of the middle class were particularly vulnerable to white-collar crimes. Denied … opportunities to earn their own living, single women were especially dependent on invested capital. Women, in fact, made up a …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression …