Women and Crime : A Sociological Study

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Changing approaches to female criminality: a review. 3. Women in Punjabi society. 4. Women and murders. 5. Women and dowry deaths. 6. Women and theft. 7. Women crime and society some generalizations. Bibliography. Glossary. Index.

Based on intensive fieldwork in a central jail Patiala this book is about rising female criminality in India particularly in Punjab. The book finds answers such questions as : to understand the crime committed by women in Punjabi society. How crime and women convicts are related each other. What webs of social relations are  formed under such circumstances. To understand the nature and reasons of crime that women commit in Punjabi society. Why do they do so and to what purpose. And how people around them are involved in or constrain women to commit crime.

Introducing readers to a whole new world of women and crime in Patriarchal society this book is useful to students and scholars of sociology criminology and social work. (jacket)