New PDF release: Routledge International Handbook of Crime and Gender Studies

By Claire M. Renzetti,Susan L. Miller,Angela R. Gover

ISBN-10: 0415782163

ISBN-13: 9780415782166

Criminological examine has traditionally been in line with the learn of guys, boys and crime. for this reason, the legal justice system’s improvement of regulations, courses, and remedy regimes used to be in keeping with the male criminal. It used to be now not till the Seventies that a few criminologists started to draw consciousness to the forget of gender within the examine of crime, yet this day, the examine of gender and crime is burgeoning inside of criminology and encompasses a gigantic literature.



The Routledge foreign guide of Crime and Gender Studies is a set of unique, state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary essays which offer an intensive review of the heritage and improvement of analysis on gender and crime, overlaying subject matters established round:




  • theoretical and methodological approaches

  • gender and victimization

  • gender and offending

  • gendered paintings within the felony justice system

  • future instructions in gender and crime research.


Alongside those essays are packing containers which spotlight fairly cutting edge principles or debatable subject matters – similar to cybercrime, restorative justice, campus crime, and media depictions. A moment set of bins positive aspects best gender and crime researchers who examine what sparked their curiosity within the subject.



This enticing and considerate assortment might be beneficial for college kids and students of criminology, sociology, psychology, public health and wellbeing, social paintings, cultural stories, media experiences, economics and political science.

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