Women, Gender, and Crime examines the relationship between gender, criminal behavior, victimization, and criminal justice. The book explains how gender influences patterns of offending, experiences of victimization, policing, prosecution, punishment, and social control. It examines women’s involvement in different forms of crime and considers how social, economic, cultural, and family conditions influence offending. Particular attention is given to domestic violence, sexual violence, harassment, exploitation, trafficking, and other forms of gender-based victimization. The book introduces feminist and gender-based approaches to criminology and explains how these perspectives expand traditional understandings of crime.
