Offending Women in Contemporary China

Gender and Pathways into Crime
2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-44143-0
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 141 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2863 g

Reihe: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia

Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens' pathways into crime, and examines the interplay between gender, class, rapid social changes and female law-breaking in neoliberal China.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shen, A.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Offending Women in Contemporary China: An Introduction 2. Researching Chinese Female Offenders: The Methodology 3. Female Members of 'Black-Society Style' Criminal Organisations 4. Female Offenders Who Organised Others for Prostitution 5. Female Child Traffickers

Über Autor(innen)

Anqi Shen is a Lecturer in Law and Policing at Teesside University. She previously worked in China as a criminal justice professional and then a qualified lawyer in a Nanjing law firm.