Women Criminals and Prisoners.(Book Review)

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Women who commit crimes, especially murder, provide endless fascination for everyone from true crime enthusiasts, who devour lurid accounts of violent crime sprees, to academics probing the individual psychology of the women as well as societal responses and treatment. Recent examples of the latter include Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom," by Cheryl L. Meyer and Michelle Oberman, with Kelly White et al. (New York University Press, 2001); Why Women Kill: Homicide and Gender Equality, by Vickie Jensen (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001); Whores and Thieves of the Worst Kind: A Study of Women, Crime, and Prisons, 1835-2000, by L. Mara Dodge (Northern Illinois University Press, 2002); and Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill, by Elizabeth Dermody Leonard (State University of New York Press, 2002).

The audience for Mistresses of Mayhem is general readers interested in reportage of crimes committed by females rather than researchers looking for a review of...

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