Kate Fitz-Gibbon - Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice

This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimisation. Covering theory, policy and practice, this new edition has been fully revised to reflect the wider changes, development and influence of gendered thinking in these areas. It brings together a range of key issues, including:

New to the third edition is increased coverage of gender and crime in international perspective, particularly within the global south, and emerging concepts of risk and security. This is essential reading for advanced courses on gender and crime, women and crime, and feminist criminology.

Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, researcher in the Monash Gender and Family Violence program and an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. She is recognised as a leading researcher in family violence, legal responses to lethal violence, and the effects of homicide law and sentencing reform in Australian and international jurisdictions. In 2015 she received the prestigious Peter Mitchell Churchill Fellowship to examine innovative and best practice legal responses to the prevention of intimate homicide in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.

Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool and conjoint Chair of Criminology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Criminology and in July 2014 was awarded the British Society of Criminologys outstanding achievement award. She also holds an adjunct professorial role at QUT in Brisbane. She has been researching criminal victimisation since the early 1980s with a particular focus on gendered violence(s) and the fear of crime.

Gender is one of the most central and persistent organising principles of the criminal justice systems and policies around the globe. This book explains why offending, victimisation, policing, prisons, and the crime policies are inherently gendered. Fitz-Gibbon and Walklate weave their way through a complex map of gendered criminal justice practices, theories and policies. This map begins with a critical interrogation of the dominance of positivism on the emergence of criminology and victimology. This way of thinking was not only blinded by the lure of empiricism that failed to count much of importance (i.e. women as victims or offenders), but was also deeply embedded in a colonial imperialism of the global economy of knowledge. This book questions the efficacy of models of knowledge and policy transfer that only go from the global north to south, opening up the possibility of re-thinking victimology, as well as criminology from the experiences and theories of the global south. Wide ranging in scope from a deconstruction of gendered concepts of risk and fear, the militaristic and masculinist nature of police work, law and the judiciary; and the challenges posed by feminism to the ongoing domination of men in the criminal justice workforce as well as masculinist viewpoints in criminology, victimology, and criminal justice practices. They conclude much has been achieved, but much more work needs to be done to redress these inequities. The book should be essential reading for a wide range of students, scholars, policy makers and criminal justice practitioners interested in crime, gender and criminal justice.

Kerry Carrington,
Professor and Head of School of Justice,
Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

This book provides a historically-informed, yet contemporary, analysis of gender in relation to key criminological and victimological theorists, issues and debates. The detailed and accessible approach taken by the authors makes this book an important resource for those interested in established and emerging themes concerning gender and criminal justice in an increasingly globalised domain.

Marian Duggan,
Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social Policy, Sociology and
Social Research, University of Kent, UK

Third Edition

Kate Fitz-Gibbon and
Sandra Walklate

Third edition published 2018
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[First edition published by Willan 2001]
[Second edition published by Willan 2004]

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Fitz-Gibbon, Kate (Lecturer in criminology), author. |
Walklate, Sandra, author.
Title: Gender, crime and criminal justice / Kate Fitz-Gibbon and
Sandra Walklate.
Description: 3rd Edition. | New York: Routledge, 2018. | Revised
edition of Gender, crime, and criminal justice, 2004. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017060231 | ISBN 9781138656369 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781138656376 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315621906 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: CrimeSex differences. | Criminal behavior.
| Victims of crimes. | Sex discrimination in criminal justice
administration. | Feminist theory.
Classification: LCC HV6158 .W35 2018 | DDC 364.2/4dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017060231

ISBN: 978-1-138-65636-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-65637-6 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-62190-6 (ebk)

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This book began its life in 1995 as Gender and Crime: An Introduction (published by Harvester Wheatsheaf) at a time when preoccupations with gender, particularly in the form of masculinity studies, were young in criminology (and victimology). In the intervening years the focus of that first book was given new life with Brian Willan of Willan Publishing in the form of the 2001 publication of Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice . The change of title itself indicates the extent to which concerns with gender had penetrated both areas of investigation in the intervening years. This book was published with the same title as a second edition in 2004 again by Willan Publishing. Since that time the world of publishing within social science generally and criminology in particular has changed. Pertinently, Willan Publishing has been absorbed by Routledge. At Routledge our thanks go to Tom Sutton (who has waited patiently for a further iteration of this book for some time) and Hannah Catterall, both of whom have offered sterling support to us, especially when changing circumstances demanded slippage in deadlines. Thank you, Tom and Hannah.