Women, crime and justice in context : contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand /

Women, crime and justice in context : contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand / edited by Anita Gibbs and Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour. - New York ; London : Routledge, 2022. - x, 270 pages ; 24 cm. - Feminist criminology .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Feminist criminology -- Gender and victimology: A necessary pairing -- Gender, criminal law and violence against women: Mapping the limits of legal interventions and approaches to reform --
Women in the criminal justice system -- Sex work, feminism and the legal system: Aotearoa in a global
context -- Women, crime and the media -- Violence against women in true crime podcasts: Beyond representation and on to justice in the late-modern landscape -- Restorative justice in the context of gender-based violence and harm -- Punishment in the community: Community sentences and gender
-- Post-prison experiences and women -- Women, incarceration and settler colonial control -- Queer criminology -- Women and girls with neurodisabilities and mental health issues in the criminal justice system -- "Nothing about us, without us": Centring the voices of criminalised women -- Women and crimmigration -- Feminist prison abolitionism -- Conclusions.


"This book presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal justice. It draws together key researchers from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to offer a context-specific textbook that covers all of the major debates in the discipline in an accessible way.
This book examines both the foundational texts and cutting-edge contributions to the topic and acknowledges the unique challenges and debates in the local Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand context. Written as an entry-level text, it introduces undergraduate students to key theories, research and and debates on the topics of offending, victimisation and the criminal justice system. It explores key topics in feminist criminology with chapters exploring sex work, prison abolitionism, community punishment, media representations of crime and victims, and the impacts of digital technology on gendered violence. Centring on an intersectional approach, the book includes chapters that focus on disability, queer criminology, Indigenous perspectives, migration and service-user perspectives. The book concludes by exploring future directions in feminist approaches to crime and justice."--Back cover



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Feminist criminology--Australia
Feminist criminology--New Zealand

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