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Women, Gender, and Crime
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Women, Gender, and Crime
Core Concepts

Second Edition


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

It is an addition to existing texts on gender studies.

Dr Omololu Fagbadebo
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

Patricia Feese
Criminal Justice, Briar Cliff University
December 11, 2022

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ISBN: 9781071845240
£103.00