Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology and conjoint Chair of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University.  Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University and Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Jude McCulloch is Professor of Criminology at Monash University and Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre.  JaneMaree Maher is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research Sociology at Monash University.

This fascinating collection tells the story of how criminology and victimology were transformed by feminist perspectives, and reveals the compelling new insights critical perspectives on gender are bringing to the study of social harms, including those inflected by the legacies of colonialism, globalization and state-sanctioned forms of social control. Anyone in doubt as to the difference feminism and criminology can make to a world complexly fractured by violence, abuse and accumulating inequalities should read this book. Insightful, inspiring and empowering.

• Part One: The Origins of Feminist CriminologyChapter 1. Evolving Feminist Perspectives in Criminology and Victimology and Their Influence on Understandings of, and Responses to, Intimate Partner Violence; Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch and JaneMaree MaherChapter 2. Feminist Perspectives in Criminology: Early Feminist Perspectives; Loraine Gelsthorpe Chapter 3. Feminist Approaches to Victimology; Jody Clay-Warner and Timothy G. EdgemonChapter 4. Feminist Activism and Scholarship in Resisting and Responding to Gender-based Abuse; Joanne Belknap and Deanne GrantChapter 5. Feminist Criminology in a Time of ‘Digital Feminism’: Can the #MeToo Movement Create Fundamental Cultural Change?; Annie CossinsPart Two: Research Beyond the Northern HemisphereChapter 6. Gender Violence Law Reform and Feminist Criminology in Brazil; Thiago Pierobom de AvilaChapter 7. The Contribution of Critical Ecofeminism to the Criminological Debate in Spain: Debating All Rules of All Tribes; Gema VaronaChapter 8. Public Attitude towards Rape Crime and the Treatment of Its Victims in Delhi City; Vibha HetuChapter 9. On Honour, Culture and Violence Against Women in Black and Minority Ethnic Communities; Aisha Gill and Samantha WalkerPart Three: Extending the Criminological AgendaChapter 10. Masculinities and Interpersonal Violence; Stephen Tomsen and James W. MesserschmidtChapter 11. Disrupting the Boundaries of the Academe: Co-Creating Knowledge and Sex Work ‘Academic-Activism’; Laura Connelly and Teela SandersChapter 12. Social Change and the Banality of Patriarchal Oppression and Gender Inequality; Dawn L. Rothe and Victoria E. CollinsChapter 13. Reflections on Women’s Resistance and Social Change in Africa; Temitope B. OriolaChapter 14. Speaking Life, Speaking Death: Jerusalemite Children Confronting Israel’s Technologies of Violence; Nadera Shalhoub-KevorkianChapter 15. Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place – Human Rights, Life Imprisonment and Gender Stereotyping: A Critical Analysis of Khamtokhu and Aksenchik v. Russia (2017); Marion VannierPart Four: Looking to the FutureChapter 16. Bringing Racialised Women and Girls into View: An Intersectional Approach to Punishment and Incarceration; Julie StubbsChapter 17. Technology and Violence against Women; Bridget A. HarrisChapter 18. Enhancing Feminist Understandings Of Violence Against Women: Looking to the Future; Walter S. DeKeseredyChapter 19. Criminological Lessons on/from Sexual Violence; May-Len SkilbreiChapter 20. Gender-based Violence: Case Studies from the Global South; Melissa Bull, Kerry Carrington and Laura VitisChapter 21. Postscript. Feminism, Activism, and Social Change: A Call to Action for Feminist Criminology; Nancy A. Wonders