Description
In the late 1950s, Barbara Wootton memorably remarked that if men behaved like women the criminal courts would be idle and the prisons empty. Wootton was among the first to ask fundamental and challenging questions of criminology; about its structure as a discipline and its explanatory potential about crime. In the following decades, serious academic work on the relationship between gender, crime, and criminal victimization has continued to flourish. It has been particularly concerned to challenge the sex-based assumptions for female criminality, on the one hand, and the invisibility of women as victims of crime, on the other. If criminology was once a discipline run by the boys, with the boys, about the boys', its domain assumptions are now severely tested in terms of theory, policy, and practice, by a large and growing corpus of scholarship.
This new title from Routledge's Critical Concepts in Criminology series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to map and m
