The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime [electronic resource].

By:

Gartner, Rosemary

Contributor(s):

McCarthy, Bill

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford handbooksPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (745 p.)ISBN:

9780199838714 (electronic bk.)
0199838712 (electronic bk.)

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and CrimeDDC classification:

364.3 364.3/7 364.37

LOC classification:

HV6158

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Cover; The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime; THE OXFORD HANDBOOKS IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part IConceptual Issues/Current Controversies; Chapter 2 Doing Crime as Doing Gender?; Chapter 3 Intersectionality and the Study of Sex, Gender, and Crime; Chapter 4 Sexual Violence; Chapter 5 Back to Basics; Chapter 6 Feminist Criminologies' Contribution to Understandings of Sex, Gender, and Crime; Chapter 7 Explaining the Volte-Face

Part IIHistorical Perspectives and PatternsChapter 8 Long-Term Trends in Female and Male Involvement in Crime; Chapter 9 A Historical Perspective on Criminal Justice Responses to Female and Male Offending; Chapter 10 Gender, Sex, and Intimate-Partner Violence in Historical Perspective; Chapter 11 Masculinities and Crime in Historical Perspective; Chapter 12 Sexual Violence in Historical Perspective; Chapter 13 Crimes Related to Sexuality and Reproduction; Part IIIPsycho-and Sociobiological Perspectives; Chapter 14 Evolutionary Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Crime

Chapter 15 Biological Perspectives on Sex Differences in Crime and Antisocial BehaviorChapter 16 Developmental Perspectives; Part IVSocial Science Perspectives and Research; Chapter 17 Adolescent Crime and Victimization; Chapter 18 Gender and Offending in a Life Course Context; Chapter 19 Intimate-Partner Violence; Chapter 20 Violence Against Children in Families; Chapter 21 Violence Against Sexual and Gender Minorities; Chapter 22 Sex, Gender, and Homicide; Chapter 23 Organized Crime; Chapter 24 Street Gangs; Chapter 25 White-Collar and Corporate Crime

Chapter 26 Sex Work, Gender, and Criminal JusticeChapter 27 Complicating the Immigration-Crime Nexus; Part VReactions to Crime; Chapter 28 The Benefits and Penalties of Gender for Criminal Justice Processing Outcomes Among Adults and Juveniles; Chapter 29 Sex, Gender, and Imprisonment; Chapter 30 Media, Gender, Sex, and Crime; Part VIGender, Sex, and Crime Globally; Chapter 31 Empirical Vacuum; Chapter 32 The Legal Regulation of Sex and Sexuality; Chapter 33 Honor Killings; Chapter 34 Beyond Rape; Chapter 35 State Rape and the Crime of Genocide; Index

Summary: Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime reflects this growing diversity and provides authoritative overviews of current research and theory on how gender and sex shape crime and criminal justice responses to it. The editors, Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy, have assembled a diverse cast of criminologists, historians.

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Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime reflects this growing diversity and provides authoritative overviews of current research and theory on how gender and sex shape crime and criminal justice responses to it. The editors, Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy, have assembled a diverse cast of criminologists, historians.