Full Description
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, legal scholars, psychologists, and sociologists from a number of countries to discuss key concepts and debates central to the field. The Handbook includes examinations of the historical and contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as well as biological, psychological, and social science perspectives on gender, sex, and crimal activity. Several essays discuss the ways in which sex and gender influence legal and popular reactions to crime. An important theme throughout The Handbook is the intersection of sex and gender with ethnicity, class, age, peer groups, and community as influences on crime and justice. Individual chapters investigate both conventional topics - such as domestic abuse and sexual violence - and topics that have only recently drawn the attention of scholars - such as human trafficking, honor killing, gender violence during war, state rape, and genocide.
The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime offers an unparalleled and comprehensive view of the connections among gender, sex, and crime in the United States and in many other countries. Its insights illuminate both traditional areas of study in the field and pathways for developing cutting-edge research questions.
Contents
Contributors ; 1. Introduction ; Bill McCarthy ; Rosemary Gartner ; I. Conceptual Issues/Current Controversies ; 2. Doing Crime as Doing Gender? Masculinities, Femininities and Crime ; Jody Miller ; 3. Intersectionality and the Study of Sex, Gender, and Crime ; S.J. Creek ; Jennifer L. Dunn ; 4. Sexual Violence ; Renee Heberle ; 5. Back to Basics: Gender and the Social Psychology of Aggression ; Richard B. Felson ; 6. Feminist Criminologies' Contribution to Understandings of Sex, Gender, and Crime ; Kerry Carrington ; Jodi Death ; 7. Explaining the Volte-Face: Turning Away from Criminal Law and Returning to the Quest for Gender Equality ; Kristin Bumiller ; II. Historical Perspectives and Patterns ; 8. Long-Term Trends in Female and Male Involvement in Crime ; Greg Smith ; 9. A Historical Perspective on Criminal Justice Responses to Female and Male Offending ; Barry Godfrey ; 10. Gender, Sex, and Intimate-Partner Violence in Historical Perspective ; Randolph Roth ; 11. Masculinities and Crime in Historical Perspective ; Tammy Whitlock ; 12. Sexual Violence in Historical Perspective ; Carolyn A. Conley ; 13. Crimes Related to Sexuality and Reproduction ; Daniel J.R. Grey ; III. Psycho- and Socio-Biological Perspectives ; 14. Evolutionary Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Crime ; Martin Daly ; 15. Biological Perspectives on Sex Difference in Crime and Antisocial Behavior ; Jill Portnoy, Frances R. Chen, Yu Gao, Sharon Niv, Robert Schug, Yaling Yang, and ; Adrian Raine ; 16. Developmental Perspectives: Sex Differences in Antisocial Behavior from Childhood to Adulthood ; Michael A. Russell ; Summer J. Robins ; Candice L. Odgers ; IV. Social Science Perspectives and Research ; 17. Adolescent Crime and Victimization: Sex and Gender Differences, Similarities, and Emerging Intersections ; Holly Foster ; 18. Gender and Offending in a Life Course Context ; Ross Macmillan ; Bill McCarthy ; 19. Intimate-Partner Violence ; Stacey L. Williams ; Daniel McKelvey ; Irene Hanson Frieze ; 20. Violence Against Children in Families ; Katreena Scott ; 21. Violence Against Sexual and Gender Minorities ; Michael Smyth ; Valerie Jenness ; 22. Sex, Gender, and Homicide: Contemporary Trends and Patterns ; Rosemary Gartner ; Maria Jung ; 23. Organized Crime: The Gender Constraints of Illegal Markets ; Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta ; 24. Street Gangs: The Gendered Experiences of Female and Male Gang Members ; Dana Peterson ; Vanessa R. Panfil ; 25. White Collar and Corporate Crime ; Kristy Holtfreter ; 26. Sex Work, Gender, and Criminal Justice ; Ronald Weitzer ; 27. Complicating the Immigration-Crime Nexus: Theorizing the Role of Gender in the Relationship Between Immigration and Crime ; Glenn A. Trager ; Charis E. Kubrin ; V. Reactions to Crime ; 28. The Benefits and Penalties of Gender for Criminal Justice Processing Outcomes among Adults and Juveniles ; Theodore R. Curry ; 29. Sex, Gender, and Imprisonment: Rates, Reforms, and Lived Realities ; Randolph R. Myers ; Sara Wakefield ; 30. Media, Gender, Sex, and Crime ; Lynn S. Chancer ; VI. Gender, Sex, and Crime Globally ; 31. Empirical Vacuum: In Search of Research on Human Trafficking ; Elzbieta Gozdziak ; 32. The Legal Regulation of Sex and Sexuality ; Mariana Valverde ; 33. Honor Killings ; Dietrich Oberwittler ; Julia Kasselt ; 34. Beyond Rape: Reconceptualizing Gender-Based Violence During Warfare ; Gabrielle Ferrales ; Suzy Maves McElrath ; 35. State Rape and the Crime of Genocide ; John Hagan ; Jaimie Morse ; Index
