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Women, Crime and Justice in Context presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal justice. It draws together key researchers from Australia and New Zealand to offer a context-specific textbook that covers all of the major debates in the discipline in an accessible way.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour and Anita Gibbs
Chapter 2. Feminist criminology
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour
Chapter 3. Gender and victimology: A necessary pairing
Jan Jordan
Chapter 4. Gender, criminal law and violence against women: Mapping the limits of legal interventions and approaches to reform
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Chapter 5. Women in the criminal justice system
Kate Seymour
Chapter 6. Sex work, feminism and the legal system: Aotearoa in a global context
Lynzi Armstrong
Chapter 7. Women, crime and the media
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour
Chapter 8. Violence against women in true crime podcasts: Beyond representation and on to justice in the late-modern landscape
Laura Vitus
Chapter 9. Restorative justice in the context of gender-based violence and harm
Andrea Păroşanu
Chapter 10. Punishment in the community: Community sentences and gender
Anita Gibbs
Chapter 11. Post-prison experiences and women
Kirsten Gibson
Chapter 12. Women, incarceration and settler colonial control
Tracey McIntosh
Chapter 13. Queer criminology
Angela Dwyer
Chapter 14. Women and girls with neurodisabilities and mental health issues in the criminal justice system
Anita Gibbs
Chapter 15. "Nothing about us, without us": Centring the voices of criminalised women
Debbie Kilroy and Suzi Quixley
Chapter 16. Women and crimmigration
Brandy Cochrane
Chapter 17. Feminist prison abolitionism
Ti Lamusse
Chapter 18. Conclusion
Anita Gibbs and Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour
About the author
Anita Gibbs is a Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Fairleigh Gilmour is Lecturer in Criminology and Gender Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Summary
Women, Crime and Justice in Context presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal justice. It draws together key researchers from Australia and New Zealand to offer a context-specific textbook that covers all of the major debates in the discipline in an accessible way.
