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The latest volume in the popular trilogy of books about women, poverty, and violence
Abused women --- Women --- Female offenders --- Drug use
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Female offenders --- Violence in women --- Violent crimes --- Violent offenders
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The first book of its kind-photographs included.Mothers, daughters, sisters and grandmothers-fiendish killers all.Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill-and the political, economic, social, and sexual implications.From history's earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain's notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to 'Honeymoon Killer' Martha Beck, from the sensational murder-spree of Aileen Wournos, to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky challenges the ordinary standards of good and evil and defies the accepted perceptions of gender role and identity..
Women serial murderers. --- Serial Murderers --- Female Offenders --- True Crime --- Social Science
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Better understand the men and women most affected by trauma in our society Convicted offenders quite often are found to have a history of trauma. Trauma and Dissociation in Convicted Offenders: Gender, Science, and Treatment Issues provides a comprehensive look at the connection between complex trauma and the likelihood of being a convicted offender. This unique text focuses on what factors increase the likelihood of being a convicted offender, and what treatment possibilities lay ahead for these individuals. Substance abuse, childhood sexual abuse, and other traumatic experie
Prisoners --- Women prisoners --- Female offenders --- Post-traumatic stress disorder. --- Dissociative disorders. --- Dual diagnosis. --- Prison psychology. --- Mental health.
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Female offenders --- Women prisoners --- Prisoners --- Delinquent women --- Offenders, Female --- Women --- Women criminals --- Women offenders --- Criminals --- Effect of imprisonment on --- Rehabilitation --- Crime
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"Crack shot." "Enigma woman." "Good with ponies and pistols." "A much-married woman.". What if such an unconventional woman-and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional-were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband's bullet-riddled body was found in the couple's Burbank apartment, police issued an all-points bulletin for the "beautiful, dark-haired widow.
Sex role --- Abused women --- Women murderers --- Female homicide offenders --- Murderesses --- Women homicide offenders --- Female offenders --- Murderers --- Battered women --- Victims of crimes --- Women --- Battered woman syndrome --- History. --- Biography. --- Madison, Nellie May,
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Female offenders --- Volunteer workers in corrections --- Women philanthropists --- Women volunteers in social service --- Volunteer social service by women --- Women in volunteer social service --- Delinquent women --- Offenders, Female --- Women --- Women criminals --- Women offenders --- Rehabilitation --- Crime --- Griffins Society. --- Voluntarism --- Volunteer workers in social service --- Philanthropists --- Women benefactors --- Corrections --- Criminals
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In Unlucky to the End Richard Pound provides a detailed and thought-provoking examination of the circumstances of the robbery, the subsequent flight of the suspects and murder of the policeman, as well as the hostage scene that led to the death of one of the robbers. He uses transcripts from the Calgary trial to explore Gamble's conviction and details the efforts that, after fourteen years in the desolate Kingston Prison for Women, finally led to her parole.
Female offenders --- Judicial error --- Bank robberies --- Police murders --- Killing of police --- Murder --- Police --- Banks and banking --- Robbery --- Conviction of the innocent --- Convictions, Erroneous --- Convictions, Mistaken --- Convictions, Wrongful --- Criminal justice, Errors of --- Erroneous convictions --- Errors of criminal justice --- Innocent, Conviction of the --- Justice, Miscarriage of --- Miscarriage of justice --- Mistaken convictions --- Wrongful convictions --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Justice, Administration of --- Trials --- Delinquent women --- Offenders, Female --- Women --- Women criminals --- Women offenders --- Criminals --- History --- Mortality --- Violence against --- Crime --- Gamble, Janise, --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Policiers --- Vol de banque --- Erreur judiciaire --- Criminelles --- Meurtre --- Histoire --- Procès, instances, etc. --- Proces, instances, etc.
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