Gender and Crime
SAGE Publications Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4129-1199-3 (ISBN)
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This text provides a much-needed, comprehensive critical introduction to debates about the relationship between gender and crime. Bringing together both feminist and masculinist perspectives, the book is a ′one stop shop′ for gaining knowledge and understanding of the field of gender and crime as a whole.
In addition to offering an overview of key themes and issues, Silvestri and Crowther-Dowey breathe new life into existing and well-rehearsed debates by considering the usefulness of drawing on a human rights discourse for making sense of gender, crime and criminal justice. In re-thinking the experiences of women and men as offenders, victims and criminal justice professionals within a human rights framework, the authors encourage a fresh approach to traditional debates about gender and crime.
The book integrates empirical, theoretical and policy-related materials in order to encourage a thorough understanding of the field. Complex ideas and debates are grounded with reference to real life examples. The learning process is supported through the use of chapter overviews, key terms, study questions and suggestions for further reading.
Gender and Crime is essential reading for students and academics in criminology, sociology, social policy and gender studies.
The Key Approaches to Criminology series celebrates the removal of traditional barriers between disciplines and, specifically, reflects criminology’s interdisciplinary nature and focus. It brings together some of the leading scholars working at the intersections of criminology and related subjects. Each book in the series helps readers to make intellectual connections between criminology and other discourses, and to understand the importance of studying crime and criminal justice within the context of broader debates.
The series is intended to have appeal across the entire range of undergraduate and postgraduate studies and beyond, comprising books which offer introductions to the fields as well as advancing ideas and knowledge in their subject areas.
Marisa Silvestri is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Kingston University. Her main research interests lie at the intersections of policing, gender and criminal justice. More specifically her work centres on exploring the position and role of women in police leadership and the gendered nature of the criminal justice system in relation to its impact on women offenders and victims. As a strong advocate of participatory action research with an emphasis on practitioner involvement, her work not only advances theoretical understandings of these issues but aims to inform policy and practice. She has published extensively in the field, including Women in Charge: policing, gender and leadership (Willan) and ‘Gender and Crime’ in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (co-authored with Frances Heidensohn (Oxford). She is also an editorial board member for Policing & Society and is currently working on exploring the gendered impacts of the current police reform agenda on the selection of its chief officers, together with an analysis of the gendered nature of language within policing. Chris Crowther-Dowey, is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. Chris Crowther-Dowey is the co-author (with Marisa Silvestri, University of Kent) of Gender and Crime (a third edition is in the process of being written to be published by Sage), and author/co-author of a range of other books, articles and research reports. His scholarly and curricular interests include policing, gender based violence, criminal justice policy making and criminological theory. For more than 20 years, he has taught courses in criminology, sociology and social policy at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Currently, he is lecturing on Policing and Criminological Research in Practice at Nottingham Trent University. Chris has a PhD in the social sciences from the University of Sheffield, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees covering the areas of sociology, social policy and criminology.
Introduction: New Approaches to Understanding Gender and Crime
PART ONE: OUT OF CONTROL
Women as Offenders
Men as Offenders
PART TWO: LOSING CONTROL
Women as Victims
Men as Victims
PART THREE: IN CONTROL
Gender and Criminal Justice Workers
The Criminal Justice System
A Gendered Site
Conclusions
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.3.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Key Approaches to Criminology |
| Verlagsort | Thousand Oaks |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 470 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4129-1199-0 / 1412911990 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4129-1199-3 / 9781412911993 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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