Machine generated contents note: One.Mediated representations and understandings of co-offending women -- Two.Theoretical understandings of coercion as a pathway into crime -- Three.Understanding the social construction of coerced women -- Four.A feminist critique of representations of potentially coerced women -- Five.Applying the `continuum of coercion': an alternative, feminist framework -- Six.Coerced women and criminology: looking to the future.