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Gender, Crime and Victimisation
Author(s): Pamela Davies (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 15 Nov. 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847870279
- ISBN-13: 9781847870278
Book Description
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 overviews
o Case studies and examples
o Study questions
o Further reading at the end of each chapter
o A comprehensive glossary
Comprehensive and robust, Gender, Crime and Victimisation provides a stimulating and topical overview that will appeal to undergraduates,
Editorial Reviews
Review
Professor Sandra Walklate
Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
Davies has produced a thorough and comprehensive exploration of crime and victimization. It is written and presented in an engaging style making it an easy to digest read… The signposting used throughout the book, the extensive glossary of terms and the succession of study questions and activities will make this a particularly useful textbook for undergraduate students and their teachers.
Cheryl Allsop
Criminology and Criminal Justice
This thought-provoking and innovative text provides an excellent base for understanding issues of gender in the study of crime and victimisation. Although the study of gender issues in relation to criminal justice is now a well-established field (Walklate, 2004), the manner in which the author has structured this book to bring together research issues, developments in theory and issues of policy related to the study of gender, crime and victimisation is unique. The text offers original insight and critical discussion of these topics as they relate to both theory and practice.
Charlotte Baxter
International Review of Victimology
About the Author
Pam has published widely on the subject of victimization and social harm and on how gender connects to matters of community safety, public protection and well-being. Her most recent books are Crime and Power authored with Tanya Wyatt and Victimology Research Policy and Activism edited with Jacki Tapley. She is the series editor of the Palgrave Macmillan ‘Victims and Victimology’ book series (with Associate Professor Tyrone Kirchengast, University of New South Wales, Sydney).
