Description
Gender and Crime is a new textbook designed to introduce students to issues of gender in crime and criminal justice. It deals with a wide range of topics, looking at both offenders and victims, the workings of the criminal justice and penal systems and the social context for crime. These issues are examined with reference to the recent debates on masculinity as well as those relating to women and crime.
The book is divided into six main sections, which address the following
issues: Criminology, victimology and feminism
Women as 'knowers' and the 'fear of crime' debate
Gendering sexual violence Gendering policework
Gendering criminal justice policy
Gendering the criminal
In conclusion, the book reviews the significance of gender in crime. Gender and Crime is a timely re-examination of gender and criminal justice written in a style and format accessible to students of criminology, the sociology of crime and deviance, gender studies, social policy and police studies.
Sandra Walklate is Reader in Criminology at the University of Keele.
