Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice

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By Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate

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Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice explores the interplay between gender and crime, analysing the gendered aspects of both criminal behaviour and victimisation. This fully revised third edition addresses feminist criminological theories, gendered experiences of victimisation, sexual and domestic violence, male dominance within the justice system, and gender perspectives in law and policy. It also expands on international views, especially from the global south, and discusses new ideas about risk and security.
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Ideal for advanced students and scholars in criminology, gender studies, and criminal justice, this book is essential for those studying feminist criminology, women and crime, and related fields.

This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimisation and covers theory, policy and practice.

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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:

Theories and concepts in feminist criminology
Gender and victimisation
Sexual and domestic violence
Male dominance in the criminal justice system
Gendered perspectives in law and criminal justice policy

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.

Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate is a crucial resource for those seeking to understand the complex intersections of gender and the criminal justice system.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138656369

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 June 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 3rd edition

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 552g

Pages: 222

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Education & Reference Kate Fitz-Gibbon Non-Fiction Sandra Walklate

About the Author

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 Criminology’s 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.