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Gender and Crime

Gender and Crime

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Publisher Open University Press
Year 01/07/2008
Edition First
Pages 352
Version paperback
Readership level College/higher education
Language English
ISBN 9780335225231
Categories Crime & criminology
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Addresses female offenders (why is the behaviour of female offenders considered to be derivative of men?), female victims, control of women and girls, masculinity and crime and international perspectives.

Gender and Crime

Table of contents

Section 1) Engendering the Agenda

Criminological 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 Victim

Women 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 Control

Troublesome 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 Masculinity

Boys 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 perspectives



Section 5) International Developments

Constituting the Punishable Woman

Globalization 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 Immorality

Conclusion: Gender and Crime - the Legacy?

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