Gender, Crime and Justice by Lizzie Seal (English) Paperback Book

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This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice.

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This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It provides an overview and critical discussion of contemporary issues and research in this area suitable for use in undergraduate and postgraduate degree modules. A key feature of the book is its use of films, television series and documentaries to illustrate the concepts and findings from criminological research on gender, crime and justice. After outlining the meaning of gender and the perspective of intersectional feminism, it has chapters focused on interpersonal and sexual violence, sex work and the night-time economy, street crime, crimes of the powerful, policing and the courts, prison and community penalties and a final chapter on extreme punishment and abolitionist futures. It speaks to students and academics in criminology, sociology and gender studies. 

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This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It provides an overview and critical discussion of contemporary issues and research in this area suitable for use in undergraduate and postgraduate degree modules. A key feature of the book is its use of films, television series and documentaries to illustrate the concepts and findings from criminological research on gender, crime and justice. After outlining the meaning of gender and the perspective of intersectional feminism, it has chapters focused on interpersonal and sexual violence, sex work and the night-time economy, street crime, crimes of the powerful, policing and the courts, prison and community penalties and a final chapter on extreme punishment and abolitionist futures. It speaks to students and academics in criminology, sociology and gender studies.

Author Biography

Lizzie Seal is Professor of Criminology at University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill (2010) and Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory (2014) and co-author with Maggie O'Neill of Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture (2012) and Imaginative Criminology (2019).

Table of Contents

 1. Introduction.- 2. Interpersonal Violence.-3. Sexual Violence.- 4. Sex Work and the Night-time Economy.- 5. Street Crime, Gangs and Drugs.- 6. Crimes of the Powerful.- 7. Policing and the Courts.- 8. Prison and Community Penalties.- 9. Extreme Punishment and Abolitionist Futures.

Feature

Takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach Uses films, television series and documentaries to illustrate concepts and findings Provides an overview and critical discussion of contemporary issues and research in this area

Details ISBN3030874877 Author Lizzie Seal Language English ISBN-10 3030874877 ISBN-13 9783030874872 Format Paperback DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-87488-9 Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition 1st Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Pages 271 Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-11-16 UK Release Date 2021-11-16 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; VII, 271 p. 1 illus. Edition Description 1st ed. 2022 DEWEY 362.88082 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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