Understanding Gender, Crime, and Justice
In the last three decades, there has been an explosion of theory and related research relevant to gender, crime, and justice. Author Merry Morash, a well-known feminist scholar in the field of criminal justice, acquaints readers with key breakthroughs in criminological conceptualization and theories to explain the interplay between gender and both crime and justice. Understanding Gender, Crime, and Justice pays special attention to race, ethnicity, and immigrant groups, and provides a unique...
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In a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses that deal with women and criminal justice, Morash (Michigan State U.) emphasizes contemporary knowledge needed to answer such questions as why there are pronounced gender differences in rates of criminal victimization, and whether gender influences the response of the criminal justice system and other parts of the community to offenders and crime victims. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1Tackling key questions about gender, crime, and justice12Gender and the law353Gender-related victimization674Social movements and the response to victims of gender-related crime1055The influence of context and individual differences on responses to gender-related victimization1256Explanations of illegal behavior1577Gender and response to lawbreakers1958Advances and challenges in understanding gender, crime, and justice227
