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Female offenders

• Violence
• Drug use
• Fraud

Other resources

• 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
• Female offenders
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service (US)
• Publications on Women
  Correctional Service of Canada
• Gender differences in offending : implications for risk-focused prevention (PDF 307kB)
  David P Farrington and Kate A Painter. Home Office (UK), 2004
• 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
• Offending women : conversations with workers
  Lee FitzRoy, 1998
• Understanding the sentencing of women (PDF 303kB)
  Home Office (UK) Research and Statistics Directorate, 1997

Violence

• The violence of women : making sense of child abuse perpetrated by mothers (PDF 44kB)
  Lee FitzRoy. 8th Australian Institute of Family Studies conference, 2003
• Women and violence
  John Howard Society of Alberta, 2001
• Female offenders are different from male offenders : anger as an example 
  Jennifer Suter and Mitch Byrne. Women in corrections : staff and clients conference, 2000
• Offending women : conversations with workers
  Lee FitzRoy, 1998
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Breaking the last taboo : child sexual abuse by female perpetrators
  Renee Koonin, 1995
• Understanding violence by women : a review of the literature
  Margaret Shaw and Sheryl Dubois. Correctional Service of Canada, 1995

Drug use

• Drug use and offending : a study of female prisoners in South Australia (PDF 939kB)
  Nick Turner. South Australia Office of Crime Statistics and Research, 2005
• Drugs and crime : a study of incarcerated female offenders 
  Holly Johnson, 2004
• Female drug use and criminal behaviour 
  Crime facts info, 2004
• Key findings from the Drug Use Careers of Female Offenders study 
  Holly Johnson, 2004
• The female criminal : an overview of women's drug use and offending behaviour 
  Katie Willis and Catherine Rushforth, 2003

Fraud

• Gender and serious fraud in Australia and New Zealand 
  Janice Goldstraw, Russell G Smith and Yuka Sakurai, 2005

Recent publications

• Misperceptions about child sex offenders
  30 September 2011
• Older prisoners—A challenge for Australian corrections
  23 August 2011
• Prison-based correctional rehabilitation: An overview of intensive interventions for moderate to high-risk offenders
  20 May 2011
• Prison-based correctional offender rehabilitation programs: The 2009 national picture in Australia
  20 May 2011
• Trends in juvenile detention in Australia
  12 May 2011
• Antisocial behaviour: An examination of individual, family, and neighbourhood factors
  25 February 2011
• What makes juvenile offenders different from adult offenders?
  23 February 2011
• Diversion programs for Indigenous women
  20 December 2010
• Juveniles in detention in Australia, 1981–2008
  16 December 2010
• Indigenous perpetrators of violence: Prevalence and risk factors for offending
  08 April 2010
• Juveniles' contact with the criminal justice system in Australia
  28 September 2009
• The specific deterrent effect of custodial penalties on juvenile reoffending
  23 September 2009
• Prior imprisonment by Indigenous status
  17 July 2009
• Indigenous imprisonment rates
  17 July 2009
• Most serious offence by Indigenous status
  17 July 2009

Recent events

• Juvenile justice – a wicked problem. Reflections on a strategic review of the NSW Juvenile Justice System
  19 August 2010
• Understanding and responding to chronic youth offending
  27 October 2005
• Juvenile justice : from the lessons of the past to a road map for the future
  01 December 2003
• Children and crime : victims and offenders
  11 June 1999
• Juvenile crime and juvenile justice : towards 2000 and beyond
  26 June 1997