Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the Global Age

“One of its key strengths is its capacity to cover much ground whilst simultaneously remaining unified by a concern to demonstrate the global context of harm against women. Achieving such a diverse collection of chapters within a coherent framework is often woefully lacking in such edited collections and its editors…should be commended for such an achievement.” ―Marisa Silvestri, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 51, No.5

“…admirably adds to our understanding in global criminology, specifically with a focus on the position of women…What is probably most remarkable about this collection, apart from its various chapters’ substantive merits, is that it reads truly as the work of a collective.” ―Mathieu Deflem, The Law & Politics Book Review, Vol.19, No.8

“[a] timely and important book … that deal[s] with what are, or should be, concerns for criminology.
It is critical, theoretically driven, international in scope and politically engaged.
A wonderful, thought-provoking collection of essays.” ―Julie Stubbs, British Journal of Criminology, Volume 50, No. 2

“This thought-provoking collection … provides a critical exploration of various expressions of women’s victimization in the context of globalization, setting the stage for an emergent feminist global criminology.

The contributions are presents in a manner that is accessible for audiences from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.

This collection is the first to provide a review of harms and expressions of violence against women in the context of globalization. It’s value lies in the broad interpretation of violence against women, which incorporates not only physical by also social, economic, political and spiritual harm.” ―Edna Erez, Law and Society Review, Volume 44, Issue 2

“This vibrant collection as a whole shows how the tension between the local and the global can be navigated through appreciating, as Walklate highlights, the lessons of standpoint feminism to knowledge construction, and an acknowledgment of the diversity of women’s lives (Cain and Howe 2008: 212-13). It makes a strong case for pushing the boundaries of criminology to encompass an analytic of social harm to reveal those cases of ‘censure without sanction’ (Cain and Howe 2008: 17).” ―Louise Boon-Kuo, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Volume 22, Number 2

Maureen Cain is a sociologist. She has worked at Brunel University, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, and the University of Birmingham.

Rosemary Hunter FacSS is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Founding Head of Law at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. She is a feminist socio-legal scholar with particular interests in family law and family justice processes, judging and the judiciary, and access to justice. She has published widely on these topics in both Australia (where she began her academic career) and the UK. With Anne Barlow, she was a member of the ESRC-funded Mapping Paths to Family Justice project, which resulted in their prize-winning book, Mapping Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Disputes in Neoliberal Times (Barlow, Hunter, Smithson and Ewing, 2017). Rosemary has been the Academic Member of the Family Justice Council since 2016 and leads the Council’s Domestic Abuse Working Group. She is also a member of the Private Law Working Group and the Ministry of Justice’s Expert Panel on Harm in the Family Courts. She is a former Chair of the SLSA and a former Council member of JUSTICE.

Adrian Howe is an Associate Professor in Social Science at RMIT University.

David Nelken is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law and past Vice-Dean for Research at King’s College London, UK. Widely published in sociology of law and in criminology, he has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the American Society of Criminology, the International Sociological Association, and the (USA) Law and Society Association. He has twice been a Trustee of the LSA and Vice-President of the RSCL.