PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1: An Overview of Delinquent Girls: How Theory and Practice Have Failed and the Need for Innovative Changes
Joanne Belknap and Kristi Holsinger 
Chapter 2: The Nature of Female Offending: Patterns and Explanation
Jennifer Schwartz and Darrell Steffensmeier
Chapter 3: Female Offenders: A Systems Perspective
Ruth T. Zaplin
Chapter 4: Social Treatment: A Multiphased Event
Frank B. W. Hawkinshire
Chapter 5: The Relational Theory of Women’s Psychological Development: Implications for the Criminal Justice System
Stephanie S. Covington
Chapter 6: Power-Belief Theory: Female Criminality and the Dynamics of Oppression
Joyce Dougherty
Chapter 7: Explanatory Diversity Among Female Delinquents: Examining Taxonomic Heterogeneity
Tim Brennan
PART II: TREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS AND STRATEGIES
Chapter 8: The Treatment of Female Offenders: Individual Psychotherapy in Systems-Theory Perspective
Bernard Weitzman
Chapter 9: Pre-Adjudicated and Adjudicated Girls’ Reports on Their Lives Before and During Detention and Incarceration
Joanne Belknap and Bonnie Cady
Chapter 10: Institutional Assessment and Classification of Female Offenders: From Robust Beauty to Person-Centered Assessment
Tim Brennan
Chapter 11: Mental Health Issues, Treatment, and the Female Offender
Susan Baugh, Susan Bull, and Kathy Cohen
Chapter 12: Female Offenders and Childhood Maltreatment: Understanding the Connections
Joyce Dougherty
Chapter 13: Surviving Violence: Women’s Strength Through Connections
Carolyn Swift
Chapter 14: Needs Assessment and Treatment Goal Planning
Lorry Bradley
PART II: EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS
Chapter 15: Meditation, Emotions, and Female Offenders
Elaine J. Yuen
Chapter 16: Preparing Federal Female Offenders for Reentry: Shifting the Paradigm to a Skills-Based Model
John M. Vanyur, Nicole English, and Melinda Clark
Chapter 17: Programs that Work: Mothers
Ruth T. Zaplin
Chapter 18: Self-Taught Empowerment and Pride: A Multimodal/Dual Empowerment Approach to Confronting the Problems of African American Female Offenders
Zelma Weston Henriques and Dolores Jones-Brown
Chapter 19: College Mentoring Program for Incarcerated Girls
Kristi Holsinger
Chapter 20: Evaluation of Programs for Female Offenders
Kathleen Kendall
Chapter 21: Applying Strategic Management Techniques to Female Offender Programs and Organizations
Rob Cimperman
PART IV: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Chapter 22: The “Good Hands” Society: The Application of Insurance Principles to Uncivil Actors and Societal Systems
David Zlowe
Chapter 23: Looking Toward the Future: The Female Offender as Customer
Ruth T. Zaplin