Gender and crime: Toward a Gendered Theory of Female Offending

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 22, Issue , 1996, Pages 459-487

  Steffensmeier, Darrell ^a   Allan, Emilie ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime patterns; Crime theories and research; Feminism; Gender; Women and crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000615807     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.22.1.459     Document Type: Article

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