Female Crime and Delinquency in Portugal: In and Out of the Criminal Justice System

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Female Crime and Delinquency; Sílvia Gomes and Vera Duarte.- Part I - Crime and Women.- Chapter 2. The Criminal Act at the Core of the Nexus Security-insecurity; Catarina Frois.- Chapter 3. Stalking by Women; Helena Grangeia and Margarida Santos.- Chapter 4. Onstage and off; Manuela Ivone Cunha.- Chapter 5. How do Foreign Women end up in Prison?; Sílvia Gomes.- Chapter 6. 'To Kill or to be Killed'; Mafalda Ferreira, Sofia Neves and Sílvia Gomes.- Part II - Female Juvenile Delinquency.- Chapter 7. Heterosexual Dating Violence and Social Gender Relations; Sofia Neves and Joana Torres.- Chapter 8. Constructing Meaning about the Delinquency of Young Girls in Public Housing Neighbourhoods; Maria João Leote de Carvalho.- Chapter 9. Gender and Crime in the Life Pathways of Young Women Offenders; Raquel Matos.- Chapter 10. Girls and Transgressive Paths; Vera Duarte and Ana Margarida Guerreiro.