Gender and Crime: A Reader

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-335-22523-1
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

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 contextEvans 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Karen

Jamieson, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 perspectivesSection 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?

Über Autor(innen)

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.