Davies Pamela - Gender Crime And Victimisation - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Gender Crime and Victimisation is a thoughtful and thought - provoking book exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimisation. It offers a thorough examination of how these patterns in society are variously established and represented researched explained and responded to by policy makers and criminal justice agencies. Bringing together key theory research and policy developments the book combines perspectives on the study of criminology with those of victimology and gender studies - drawing particularly on the influence of feminism. It analyses processes of criminalisation and social control and their structural biases. It explores fears anxieties and worries about crime as well as particular vulnerabilities to crime. The book employs a range of learning devices to support the student reader including:o Chapter overviewso Case studies and examples o Study questions o Further reading at the end of each chaptero A comprehensive glossary Comprehensive and robust Gender Crime and Victimisation provides a stimulating and topical overview that will appeal to undergraduates
Title: Gender Crime And Victimisation
Author(s): Davies Pamela
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781847870285
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 11/16/2010
Category: Crime & Criminology