This Handbook is ambitious in both its scope and its reach. It offers a timely reminder of the analytical power afforded by gendered analyses of all kinds of crime and criminal victimisation, including state crime and terrorism, alongside offering an appreciation of the international resonance that such questions raise. In so doing it neither downgrades the complexity that gendered analyses demand nor does it underestimate what remains to be done. This is a timely and boundary-pushing collection that gives a renewed voice to the question of gender that will consequently re-invigorate the gender and crime debate for academics, activists, criminal justice professionals and policy makers alike. It may be ambitious but it does not fall short on delivery.
Professor Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
This collection of original essays on gender and crime approaches the topic from multiple perspectives, drawing on the latest research findings from around the globe to outline the state of the field and raise provocative questions for future research. The accessible style, explicit linkages between research and practice, and inclusion of personal histories of luminaries in the field make this volume a must-read for students, practitioners, and scholars.
Professor Marjorie S. Zatz, Department of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University
The Routledge International Handbook of Crime and Gender Studies offers a fine review of the now decades of theorizing and research about gender and crime. The original articles present a clearly written and informative history of our field as well as agenda setting for the future. The multi-disciplinary and international perspectives together with the short biographies of leading scholars in the field make this a book that students, professors and other experts will want to use in classes or refer to in future research.
Professor Nancy Jurik, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
Routledge International Handbook
of Crime and Gender Studies
Criminological research has historically been based on the study of men, boys and crime. As a result, the criminal justice systems development of policies, programs, and treatment regimes was based on the male offender. It was not until the 1970s that some criminologists began to draw attention to the neglect of gender in the study of crime, but today, the study of gender and crime is burgeoning within criminology and includes a vast literature.
The Routledge International Handbook of Crime and Gender Studies is a collection of original, cuttingedge, multidisciplinary essays which provide a thorough overview of the history and development of research on gender and crime, covering topics based around:
theoretical and methodological approaches
gender and victimization
gender and offending
gendered work in the criminal justice system
future directions in gender and crime research.
Alongside these essays are boxes which highlight particularly innovative ideas or controversial topics such as cybercrime, restorative justice, campus crime, and media depictions. A second set of boxes features leading gender and crime researchers who reflect on what sparked their interest in the subject.
This engaging and thoughtful collection will be invaluable for students and scholars of criminology, sociology, psychology, public health, social work, cultural studies, media studies, economics and political science.
Angela R. Gover is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research interests include gender and crime, victimization, and intimate partner violence. Govers recent work has appeared in Violence Against Women, Violence and Victims , and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence .
Claire M. Renzetti is the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women, and Professor of Sociology, at the University of Kentucky. She is editor of the journal, Violence Against Women ; co-editor of the Interpersonal Violence book series for Oxford University Press; and editor of the Gender, Crime and Law book series for Northeastern University Press. Her recent research focuses on religiosity and intimate partner violence, and the provision of services for domestic sex trafficking victims.
Susan L. Miller is Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Her research interests are in gender and crime, violence against women, and restorative justice. Her most recent book, After the Crime: The Power of Restorative Justice Dialogues between Victims and Violent Offenders (New York University Press, 2011) received the Best Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in 2012.
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Routledge international handbook of crime and gender studies / edited by
Claire M. Renzetti, Susan L. Miller, and Angela R. Gover. - - 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Crime. 2. Crime- -Sex differences. 3. Female offenders. I. Renzetti, Claire M.
II. Miller, Susan L. III. Gover, Angela R. IV. Title: International handbook of crime
and gender studies.
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