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Book SynopsisThere are now more women committing crimes and serving sentences in prison than ever before. At the same time, women are often the victims of abuse, violence, and murder. Composed of contributions by many of the top scholars in criminology, these essays will help to transform our understanding of women's relation to crime.
Trade Review"The overall quality of this collection is excellent." * Criminal Justice Review *
"Relying on recent work by a virtual who's who in the study of gender and crime, this book does exactly what is needed to significantly advance our thinking about the structure of the gender-crime nexus." -- Valerie Jenness,co-author of Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement
"Gender and Crime is an exceptionally strong collection that focuses on the deep intersection of criminological theory and gendered violence. Through multiple lenses of sociological inquiry, this volume gifts us with a wealth of new perspectives on gendered violence." -- Jeffrey Fagan,co-editor of The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Co
Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Insights into the Gendered Nature of Crime and Victimization Karen Heimer and Candace KruttschnittPart I: Gendered Offending: Pathways, Situations, and Social Contexts1 In and Out of CrimePeggy C. Giordano, Jill A. Deines, and Stephen A. Cernkovich2 Stuck Up, Telling Lies, and Talking Too MuchJody Miller and Christopher W. Mullins3 No Place for Girls to GoHilary Smith, Nancy Rodriguez, and Marjorie S. Zatz4 Killing One's ChildrenRosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy5 The Crimes of PovertyKaren Heimer, Stacy Wittrock, and Halime UnalPart II: Gendered Victimization: Trajectories, Social Contexts, and Justice6 The Violent Victimization of WomenCandace Kruttschnitt and Ross Macmillan7 Predictors of Violent VictimizationLaura Dugan and Jennifer L. Castro8 Female and Male Homicide Victimization TrendsGary LaFree and Gwen Hunnicutt9 Restorative Justice for Victims of Sexual AssaultKathleen Daly and Sarah Curtis-FawleyPart III: Intersectionalities: Gender, Race, Poverty, and Crime10 Making Sense of Intersections Sally S. Simpson and Carole Gibbs11 The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Violence against Women Janet L. Lauritsen and Callie Marie RennisonContributors Index
