Table of Contents
Nature of female offending : patterns and explanation /Darrell Steffensmeier and Emilie Allan --Overview of delinquent girls : how theory and practice have failed and the need for innovative changes /Joanne Belknap and Kristi Holsinger --Female offenders : a systems perspective /Ruth T. Zaplin --Social treatment : a multiphased event /Frank B.W. Hawkinshire --Relational theory of women's psychological development : implications for the criminal justice system /Stephanie S. Covington --Power-belief theory : female criminality and the dynamics of oppression /Joyce Dougherty --Treatment of female offenders : individual psychotherapy in systems-theory perspective /Bernard Weitzman --Institutional classification of females : problems and some proposals for reform /Tim Brennan --Mental health issues, treatment, and the female offender /Susan Baugh, Susan Bull, and Kathy Cohen --Female offenders and childhood maltreatment : understanding the connections /Joyce Dougherty --Surviving violence : women's strength through connection /Carolyn Swift --Needs assessment and treatment goal planning /Lorry Bradley --Integrated systems approach to program development and implementation /Angela Velasquez --Self-taught empowerment and pride : a multimodal/dual empowerment approach to confronting the problems of African American female offenders /Zelma Weston Henriques and Dolores Jones-Brown --Programs that work : mothers /Ruth T. Zaplin and Joyce Dougherty --Programs that work : working with prostitutes /Lorry Bradley and Lori Moschella --Evaluation of programs for female offenders /Kathleen Kendall.