Gender and Crime

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.

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?