{"product_id":"women-in-crime","title":"Women in Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Ives Washburn, 1941. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Grey octavo, xv, 306 pages, b\u0026amp;w frontispiece (portrait); 22 cm. Very gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, loose thread to spine head, light soiling to boards, very mild bumping to corners, small white stain to rear-rear corner, very mild rubbing to fore-edge, faint water stain to spine, light mark to title page and next two front endpapers, otherwise very bright pages in tight binding, else Very Good. Hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLady Justice depicted to front board. Florence Monahan, the leading woman penologist of our country, Superintendent of the State Reformatory for Women Criminals at Shakopee Minnesota, presents the absorbing story of her life among the women who have failed society and themselves. Women, Crime -- United States. Contents: Steps to prison -- First lessons in penology -- Who are these women? -- Material for melodrama -- Parole: the invisible chain -- Visitors come to Shakopee -- Geneva, and trouble -- The bad girls -- Pawns in politics -- The vice scandal -- Inmates are individuals -- Tempest in Tehachapi -- Of recreation and unrest -- Poetry in prison -- Medicine and malingerers -- The sex problem -- Some come back -- It's the law! -- Women who kill -- Where common sense counts -- Catastrophe in California -- Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monahan, Florence","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46055602716930,"sku":"90918.0","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/holder_6_0f5ee04a-79b2-4759-a7a7-3bf0a082e3e1.jpg?v=1744074580","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/women-in-crime","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}