Kategoriya nesovershennoletnikh osuzhdennykh zhenskogo pola schitaetsya naibolee slozhnoy sredi vsey populyatsii osuzhdennykh. Odnako redko vydelyaetsya v rang samostoyatel"noy v penitentsiarno-psikhologicheskikh publikatsiyakh. Mezhdu tem neobkhodimost" psikhologicheskogo issledovaniya osobennostey lichnosti dannoy kategopii osuzhdennykh obuslovlena ne tol"ko stremitel"nym rostom podrostkovoy prestupnosti, no i kachestvennymi izmeneniyami ee struktury, kharakterom sovershaemykh devochkami-podrostkami prestupleniy, gde vse bol"she proyavlyaetsya agpessivnost", zhestokost", ozloblennost" i vpazhdebnost". V knige v ramkakh istoriograficheskogo podkhoda rassmotreny osnovnye etapy izucheniya psikhologii nesovershennoletnikh osuzhdennykh zhenskogo pola v Rossii. V ney nashli otrazhenie issledovaniya penitentsiarnykh psikhologov i pedagogov, provedennye v kontse XX nachale XXI veka. Dannaya kniga orientirovana, kak na spetsialistov-psikhologov, sotsial"nykh rabotnikov, personal penitentsiarnykh uchrezhdeniy, tak i na studentov psikhologicheskikh i yuridicheskikh fakul"tetov vuzov.