Routledge Companion to Gender and Crime

Francesca Spina is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Criminal Justice Department at Westfield State University, United States. Her most recent publication is Think Like a Terrorist to Combat Terrorism and Radicalization in Prison (CRC Press, 2022).

"Much of this handbook's overall value lies in how, by comprehensively addressing issues of gender and power inequalities, it combines internationalism with intersectionality. Its internationalism is displayed in chapters on Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Oceania, and South America, written by scholars from those regions. Its intersectionality highlights how factors such as race, class, and sexuality (including those facing non-binary and transgender individuals) affect people's realities and identities in the criminal justice system. The handbook is especially attentive to both the variety of relevant theoretical perspectives and to underresearched issues, such as the criminalization of girls, child marriage in Ghana, and pregnancy before and after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022). It is, quite simply, a landmark volume."- Piers Beirne, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Southern Maine, USA.

• Introduction Part I: Theories and Patterns of Offending 1. Feminist Criminological Theories 2. Masculinities, Crime, and Criminalization 3. Theoretical Explanations for Variation in Gender and Crime Rates 4. The Inherent Difficulties of Doing Research in the Field of Gender and Crime: Do the Vagaries of Reliability Interfere with Validation? 5. Gender, Mental Illness, and Offending Behavior 6. Delinquency and Gender 7. Gender Differences in Risk Factors for Gang Involvement in the Caribbean 8. Rewriting the Code: Marginalization, Masculinity, and the Evolution of a Singaporean Prison Gang 9. Women and White-Collar Crimes Part II: Gender and Victimization 10. Policing LGBTQ+ Communities 11. Policing SOGIE Hate Crime in a Liberal State: The Case of Malta 12. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Africa: Between Progress and Struggle 13. He Said, She Said, They Said: The Place of Gender in Sexual Violence Theory and Prevention 14. Gender-Based Hate Crimes: A Contested Socio-Legal Terrain 15. Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women 16. Gender and Institutional Child Sexual Abuse: What do We Know and What do We Need to Know? 17. Connected Victimizations: Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse 18. Not Just My Husband: Role of In-Laws in Violence Instigation and Perpetration against Women in Pakistan 19. Battered Women Syndrome in Murder Trials Part III: Gendered Experiences and Challenges within the Criminal Justice System 20. Gender, Crime, and the United Nations 21. The Criminalization of Girls 22. Two Sides of the Colonial Coin: Criminalization of the Black Girlchild in Barbados 23. Gender Dynamics and Criminalization of Child Marriage in Ghana: Beyond Exploitation and Chronological Age 24. Capital Punishment and Social Time 25. The Criminalization of Pregnancy before and after Dobbs 26. Pregnant Women and Mothers in Prison: Health Needs and Support Services 27. ‘Women Don’t belong in Prison:’ Incarcerated Women and Their “Disordered Relationships with Men” in Guyana 28. Double Imprisonment: The Trans Experience in Prison – Issues and Policy 29. Beyond the Binary: An Intersectional Look at Gender and Corrections 30. The Role of Gender in Effective Probation Practice 31. Gender Issues in Veterans Treatment Courts Part IV: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions in Gender and Crime 32. Beyond the Carceral Approach to Sex Work and Sex Trafficking: A Structural Perspective 33. “Partner with Benefits”: A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Intimate Partner Involved Sex Trafficking 34. Residential Treatment Centers for Adjudicated Boys 35. The Role of Gender in Terrorist Organizations 36. Gendered Harms of Corporate Crime 37. Women in Legal Professions 38. Women in Leadership Positions within Corrections