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- Addressing offending by women : a literature review
Una Convery, Northern Ireland Office. 2009
- A report on the Government's strategy for diverting women away from crime
Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Justice. 2009
- Female offending : has there been an increase?
Jessie Holmes, New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. 2010
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Female offenders
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (US)
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Publications on Women
Correctional Service of Canada
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Gender differences in offending : implications for risk-focused prevention (PDF 307kB)
David P Farrington and Kate A Painter. Home Office (UK), 2004
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Women, crime and an informal economy : female offending and crime for gain (PDF 102kB)
Pamela Davies. In The British criminology conferences : selected proceedings, vol. 2, 1999
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Offending women : conversations with workers
Lee FitzRoy, 1998
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Understanding the sentencing of women (PDF 303kB)
Home Office (UK) Research and Statistics Directorate, 1997
Violence
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The violence of women : making sense of child abuse perpetrated by mothers (PDF 44kB)
Lee FitzRoy. 8th Australian Institute of Family Studies conference, 2003
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Women and violence
John Howard Society of Alberta, 2001
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Female offenders are different from male offenders : anger as an example
Jennifer Suter and Mitch Byrne. Women in corrections : staff and clients conference, 2000
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Offending women : conversations with workers
Lee FitzRoy, 1998
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Riot grrrl and raisin girl : femininity within the female gang the power of the popular (PDF 115kB)
Debbie Archer. In The British criminology conferences : selected proceedings, vol. 1 : Emerging themes in criminology, 1998
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Women convicted of homicide serving a federal sentence : an exploratory study
Lana E Hoffman, Brigitte Lavigne, Ida Dickie and Women Offender Sector, Correctional Service of Canada, 1998
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Battered wife syndrome evidence : the Australian experience (PDF 105kB)
Bronwyn F Bartal. In The British criminology conferences : selected proceedings, vol. 1 : Emerging themes in criminology, 1998
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Breaking the last taboo : child sexual abuse by female perpetrators
Renee Koonin, 1995
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Understanding violence by women : a review of the literature
Margaret Shaw and Sheryl Dubois. Correctional Service of Canada, 1995
Drug use
Fraud
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Gender and serious fraud in Australia and New Zealand
Janice Goldstraw, Russell G Smith and Yuka Sakurai, 2005
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