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Routledge International Handbook of Crime and Gender Studies

Routledge International Handbook of Crime and Gender Studies

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Criminological research has historically been based on the study of men, boys and crime. As a result, the criminal justice system’s 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, cutting-edge, 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.

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Publication Date

2012

Publisher

Routledge

City

London, UK

e-ISBN

978-0-203-83251-6

p-ISBN

978-0-415-78216-6

Disciplines

Criminology | Gender and Sexuality | Law and Society | Social Policy | Sociology

Comments

© 2013 Claire M. Renzetti, Susan L. Miller and Angela R. Gover

All rights reserved.

Dr. Claire M. Renzetti, Dr. Susan L. Miller, and Dr. Angela R. Gover were co-editors of this book.

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