Women and crime

Female offenders

• AIC publications
• Corrections and offender management
• Juveniles: see Young people and crime : females
• Female offender statistics

• Violence
• Drug use
• Fraud

• 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