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This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimisation. Covering theory, policy and practice, this new edition has been fully revised to reflect the wider changes, development and influence of gendered thinking in these areas. It brings together a range of key issues, including: Theories and concepts in feminist criminology, Gender and victimisation, Sexual and domestic violence, Male dominance in the criminal justice system, Gendered perspectives in law and criminal justice policy. New to the third edition is increased coverage of gender and crime in international perspective, particularly within the global south, and emerging concepts of risk and security. This is essential reading for advanced courses on gender and crime, women and crime, and feminist criminology.

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Gender is one of the most central and persistent organizing principles of the criminal justice systems and policies around the globe. This book explains why offending, victimization, policing, prisons, and the crime polices are inherently gendered. Walklate and Fitz-Gibbon weave their way through a complex map of gendered criminal justice practices, theories and policies. The book should be essential reading for a wide range of students, scholars, policy makers and criminal justice practitioners interested in crime, gender and criminal justice. - Kerry Carrington, Professor and Head of School of Justice, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia This book provides a historically-informed, yet contemporary, analysis of gender in relation to key criminological and victimological theorists, issues and debates. The detailed and accessible approach taken by the authors make this book an important resource for those interested in established and emerging themes concerning gender and criminal justice in an increasingly globalised domain. - Marian Duggan, Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, UK

Gender is one of the most central and persistent organizing principles of the criminal justice systems and policies around the globe. This book explains why offending, victimization, policing, prisons, and the crime polices are inherently gendered. Walklate and Fitz-Gibbon weave their way through a complex map of gendered criminal justice practices, theories and policies. This map begins with a critical interrogation of the dominance of positivism on the emergence of criminology and victimology. This way of thinking was not only blinded by the lure of empiricism that failed to count much of importance (i.e. women as victims or offenders), but was also deeply embedded in a colonial imperialism of the global economy of knowledge. This book questions the efficacy of models of knowledge and policy transfer that only go from the global north to south, opening up the possibility of re-thinking victimology, as well as criminology from the experiences and theories of the global south. Wide ranging in scope - from a deconstruction of gendered concepts of risk and fear, the militaristic and masculinist nature of police work, law and the judiciary; and the challenges posed by feminism to the ongoing domination of men in the criminal justice workforce as well as masculinist viewpoints in criminology, victimology, and criminal justice practices. They conclude much has been achieved, but much more work needs to be done to redress these inequities. The book should be essential reading for a wide range of students, scholars, policy makers and criminal justice practitioners interested in crime, gender and criminal justice. - Kerry Carrington, Professor and Head of School of Justice, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, researcher in the Monash Gender and Family Violence program and an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. She is recognised as a leading researcher in family violence, legal responses to lethal violence, and the effects of homicide law and sentencing reform in Australian and international jurisdictions. In 2015 she received the prestigious Peter Mitchell Churchill Fellowship to examine innovative and best practice legal responses to the prevention of intimate homicide in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool and conjoint Chair of Criminology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Criminology and in July 2014 was awarded the British Society of Criminology’s outstanding achievement award. She also holds an adjunct professorial role at QUT in Brisbane. She has been researching criminal victimisation since the early 1980s with a particular focus on gendered violence(s) and the fear of crime.

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