Gendering criminology crime and justice today

"Gendering Criminology explores issues pertaining to victimization, individuals involved in the criminal-legal system and those working within in the system that are unique to females, males and individuals within the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual) commu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clevenger, Shelly
Other Authors: Navarro, Jordana N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press, [2021]
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Online Access:https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/3137367.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • The story of gender : definitions, origins, and current issues
  • The why and how : theories of gender, crime, and victimization
  • "Manly" crimes : the relationship between masculinity and criminality
  • "ladies only :" an examination of women and crime
  • At the margins : criminalization within the LGBTQIA+ communities
  • Gender-based online victimization
  • "Boys will be boys" and "sugar and spice :" the relationship between gender and victimization
  • The victimization of individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+
  • Policing crime : how gender influences arrest decisions and court cases
  • The Gendered nature of punishment
  • "Boys' club :" gender and employment in the criminal-legal system
  • Gender, crime, and the media.