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This book is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the field of gender and crime, re-thinking the key themes and debates within a human rights framework.
Integrating empirical, theoretical and policy-related material, this Second Edition has been significantly updated, and now includes;
- Full consideration of the 2010-2015 Coalition Government and its effect on gender and crime within England and Wales
- A new chapter relating criminological theory to gender and crime
- A new chapter discussing the history of gender and crime
- A new chapter analysing contemporary issues in gender and crime in a globalised world
- Fully updated learning features including; Chapter Overviews, Key Words, Study Questions, Chapter Summaries, Key Further Readings and a Glossary.
Gender and Crime: A Human Rights Approach is essential reading for students studying criminology, sociology, social policy and gender studies.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
PART 1: Gender & Crime in Context
Chapter 2: Theorising Gender and Crime
Chapter 3: Gender, Crime and History
Chapter 4: Contemporary Issues in Gender and Crime in a Globalised World
PART 2: Out of Control
Chapter 5: Women as Offenders
Chapter 6: Men as Offenders
PART 3: In Need of Care
Chapter 7: Women as Victims
Chapter 8: Men as Victims
PART 4: In Control
Chapter 9: Gender and Criminal Justice Workers
Chapter 10: The Criminal Justice System: A Gendered Site
Glossary
References
About the author
Marisa Silvestri is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Kingston University. Her main research interests lie at the intersections of policing, gender and criminal justice. More specifically her work centres on exploring the position and role of women in police leadership and the gendered nature of the criminal justice system in relation to its impact on women offenders and victims. As a strong advocate of participatory action research with an emphasis on practitioner involvement, her work not only advances theoretical understandings of these issues but aims to inform policy and practice. She has published extensively in the field, including Women in Charge: policing, gender and leadership (Willan) and ‘Gender and Crime’ in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (co-authored with Frances Heidensohn (Oxford). She is also an editorial board member for Policing & Society and is currently working on exploring the gendered impacts of the current police reform agenda on the selection of its chief officers, together with an analysis of the gendered nature of language within policing.
Chris Crowther-Dowey, is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University.
Chris Crowther-Dowey is the co-author (with Marisa Silvestri, University of Kent) of Gender and Crime (a third edition is in the process of being written to be published by Sage), and author/co-author of a range of other books, articles and research reports. His scholarly and curricular interests include policing, gender based violence, criminal justice policy making and criminological theory. For more than 20 years, he has taught courses in criminology, sociology and social policy at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Currently, he is lecturing on Policing and Criminological Research in Practice at Nottingham Trent University. Chris has a PhD in the social sciences from the University of Sheffield, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees covering the areas of sociology, social policy and criminology.
Summary
With brand new chapters on theory, history and globalization, this book, written within a strong human rights framework, provides students with a current and critical guide to the area
Report
Gender & Crime: A Human Rights Approach is not merely another book on criminology. It is also a necessary stocktaking of the evolution of gender issues within human rights policies and the general economic, political, social and cultural contexts of Britain, Europe and worldwide.
Besides providing insight into the relevance of studying human rights and criminology, feminist critique and the global and local political agenda on gender issues, this book brings the added value of reminding the public about the real challenges to gender discrimination in the criminal justice system. It thus informs and better equips the next generation of practitioners, currently students, or all other policymakers who read it.
Therefore, I dare say that this book is not only a must-read, but also a must-keep.
Gabriela-Mihaela Ivan-Cucu, New Journal of European Criminal Law
