The Gender of Crime
By (author) Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Grace E. Howard
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Publication date:
03 August 2017Length of book:
198 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781442262232
The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates and new material throughout, including increased focus on the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in crime and punishment; more attention to LGBTQ issues; additional coverage of gender and crime on college campuses; and more.
This dynamic and provocative book illustrates how gender is central to the definition, prosecution, and sentencing of crimes, that it shapes how victimization is experienced and understood, and how it structures the institutions of the criminal justice system and the experiences of workers within that system. The Gender of Crime demonstrates that crime, victimization, and crime control are never generic—they are instead produced and experienced by gendered (and raced, and classed, and sexualized) actors within contexts of social inequality. This book highlights key concepts and encourages readers to think through a range of compelling real-life examples, from school violence to corporate crime. The second edition of The Gender of Crime is essential reading for students of gender and sexuality, sociology, criminology, and criminal justice.
This dynamic and provocative book illustrates how gender is central to the definition, prosecution, and sentencing of crimes, that it shapes how victimization is experienced and understood, and how it structures the institutions of the criminal justice system and the experiences of workers within that system. The Gender of Crime demonstrates that crime, victimization, and crime control are never generic—they are instead produced and experienced by gendered (and raced, and classed, and sexualized) actors within contexts of social inequality. This book highlights key concepts and encourages readers to think through a range of compelling real-life examples, from school violence to corporate crime. The second edition of The Gender of Crime is essential reading for students of gender and sexuality, sociology, criminology, and criminal justice.
This treasure-trove of evidence and insights about gender and crime in the United States offers a disturbing picture of the dynamics of criminalization, crime victimization, and the kinds of people (and entities) that are prosecuted (or not) for committing crimes. The authors expose as false many widely accepted myths about gender and crime and continually remind us that race/ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation as well as gender are implicated in crime commission and society’s responses to it. This profoundly sociological book urges readers to focus on social contexts when seeking to understand how crime is ‘constructed’ by society (legislatures, the courts). A comprehensive, insightful, well-documented analysis, this book is an invaluable resource that will both inform and prompt debates in coming years.