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Women, Gender, and Crime
Core Concepts
Second Edition
- Stacy L. Mallicoat - California State University, Fullerton, USA
February 2023 | 408 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Women, Crime, and Justice: Core Concepts, provides a complete and concise view into the world of women, gender, and the interaction with the criminal justice system. Supported by contemporary research and discussions of issues around victimization, criminalization, and work within criminal justice, author Stacy L. Mallicoat explores a wide range of topics including rape and sexual assault, crimes and processing of women and LGBTQ+ individuals, and the impacts of gender in both the criminal justice and legal systems.
Chapter 1. Women, Gender, and Crime: Introduction
Chapter 2. Theories of Victimization
Chapter 3. Women, Gender, and Victimization: Rape and Sexual Assault
Chapter 4. Women, Gender, and Victimization: Intimate Partner Abuse and Stalking
Chapter 5. Gender-Based Violence
Chapter 6. Women, Gender, and Offending
Chapter 7. Girls, Gender, and Juvenile Delinquency
Chapter 8. Female Offenders and Their Crimes
Chapter 9. Processing and Sentencing of Female Offenders
Chapter 10. The Supervision of Women: Community Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry
Chapter 11. Women, Gender, and Incarceration
Chapter 12. Women Professionals and the Criminal Justice System: Police, Corrections, and Offender Services
Chapter 13. Women Professionals and the Criminal Justice System: Courts and Victim Services
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
Supplements
It is an addition to existing texts on gender studies.
Faculty of Management Sciences, Durban University of Technology
June 2, 2023
Good balance of the victim, criminal, and professional throughout all three pillars of the criminal justice system
Criminal Justice, Briar Cliff University
December 11, 2022
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1 Women, Gender, and Crime: Introduction
Chapter 2 Theories of Victimization