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
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.
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
