Gender and Crime: A Reader

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Focusing explicitly on questions of gender and crime, Evans and Jamieson guide the reader through a range of classic and groundbreaking studies, highlighting key contributions and debates and providing an indication of the new directions an engendered criminology may take us in coming years.

This engaging reader is divided into five sections, mapping the theoretical, empirical, and practical developments that have endeavoured to identify the ways in which gender informs criminology. Issues addressed by the readings include:

Female offending
Gendered patterns of victimisation
The gendered nature of social control
Masculinity and crime
Placing gender in an international context

Evans and Jamieson’s powerful concluding chapter clearly sets out the achievements and the challenges that the gender and crime question has posed for criminology. They argue that unless the question of gender remains at the forefront of criminological endeavours, criminology will fail to offer an agenda informed by an understanding of social justice that strives to be attentive to both victims and offenders, whether they be male or female.

Gender and Crime is key reading for students of criminology, criminal justice and gender studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-07-16
Mått:153 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:419 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN:9780335225231

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Karen Evans is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Janet Jamieson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Innehållsförteckning

Section 1) Engendering the AgendaCriminological Theory: its ideology and implications concerning women Challenging Orthodoxies in feminist theory; A Black Feminist Critique Girls’ Troubles and 'Female Delinquency' Twisted Sisters, Ladettes, and the New Penology: The Social Construction of 'Violent Girls' Section 2)Engendering the VictimWomen Fight Back Typical Violence, Normal Precaution Women and the 'Fear of Crime': Challenging the Accepted Stereotype Women's Violence to Men in Intimate Relationships: Working on the puzzle Section 3) Gender and Social ControlTroublesome Girls: Towards alternative definitions and policies Magistrates Explanations of Sentencing Decisions Women's Imprisonment in England and Wales: a penal paradox Black Women and the Criminal Justice System Section 4) Engendering MasculinityBoys will be Boys Structured Action and Gendered Crime Masculinities and Crime: Rethinking the 'Man Question' Gender, Class, Racism, and Criminal Justice: against global and gender-centric theories for poststructuralist perspectivesSection 5) International DevelopmentsConstituting the Punishable WomanGlobalization and Violence against women-inequalities You Deserve it Because you are Australian: the moral panic over 'ethnic gang rape'Genocide and the Social Production of ImmoralityConclusion: Gender and Crime – the Legacy?