Street Woman - Softcover

Eleanor M. Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877225095 ISBN 13: 9780877225096

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Analyzes the social organization of street hustling and the lives of the women involved in it. This book offers an alternative to sociological studies that view the 'women's movement' as directly linked to the increasing participation of women in property crime.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Interviews with female street hustlers working in prostitution, fraud, forgery, embezzlement, and larceny

Distinguished Scholar Award, American Sociological Association Criminology Section

From the Inside Flap:

"Miller's firsthand report of female offenders documents a picture of contemporary female criminality.... Street Woman is field research at its best. The reader will be angered and disturbed, enlightened and absorbed."
—Darrell J. Steffenmeier

"This book deserves a large audience for it provides convincing detail on the recruitment of women to this kind of demi monde and spells out for us a far more persuasive social process than that anticipated in more abstract models. Like the best of our ethnographics research it provides both a refinement of existing theory and a descriptive document that can outlast existing theory."
—Gerald D. Suttles, University of Chicago

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0877225095
• ISBN 13: 9780877225096
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 201