"This book gives a inclusive understanding to a many-sided anxiety of inter-disciplinary field. It finds out the lives of women in crime against the background of the offenses having been committed or alleged to have been committed. Majority of the incarcerated women are illiterate and belong to marginalized sections of the society. It has been established that women crime tends to reproduce the role that economic disadvantage plays in their criminal careers. Since preponderance of women are measured on the yardstick set for men, this examine will help the powers that be to understand the requirements of these imprisoned women. By providing them right resources and services, authorities would decrease not only the rate of recidivism but in totaling the possible for their children to pursue the path of crime."
                                                                                          [from Blurb]