Publisher's Synopsis
This book provides a lucid and highly accessible introduction to gender issues in crime and criminal justice, central to any understanding of crime and criminal justice policy. It deals with a wide range of issues within criminology and victimology from the way in which the fear of crime is debated to the way in which the law operates in a gendered fashion. It replaces and updates her earlier book "Gender and Crime: An Introduction" (1995).;"Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice" is divided into three main sections, addressing theoretical issues (especially masculinity and feminism); substantive issues (looking particularly at the relationship between risk, criminality and masculinity, and sexual violence); and questions of policy, examining gender in the criminal justice professions, and in government criminal justice policy.;The book concludes with an overview of the themes raised in the book, special attention being paid to recent work on the unhappy juxtaposition of sex, race and class.
