Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System
Posted February 22nd, 2006 by Lisa Broniszewski in Crime, Law, and JusticeNational Criminal Justice Reference Service Article: “Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System” (February 2006). Although women remain a relatively small number of all prisoners, these facts have concealed a trend in the rising percentage of female offenders, their participation in violent crime, and have inhibited the development of gender-specific programs to address the issue.
