Gender, crime and victimisation / Pamela Davies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-214) and index.

Introduction: The Gender Agenda to Crime and Victimization -- The Gender Agenda to Crime and Victimization -- Gender Patterns to Crime and Victimization -- Mediated Gender, Crime and Victimization -- Feminisms, Ideologies and Research -- Feminist and Gendered Perspectives Explaining and Theorizing Offending and Victimization -- Feminist and Gendered Perspectives -- On Fear, Risk and Vulnerability to Victimization -- Gender and the Criminal Justice System: Responses to Lawbreakers -- Gender and Responses to Victimization -- Challenges to Understanding Crime and Victimization through Gender.

Gender, Crime and Victimisation is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book, exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimisation. It offers a thorough examination of how these patterns in society are variously established and represented, researched, explained and responded to by policy makers and criminal justice agencies. Bringing together key theory, research and policy developments, the book combines perspectives on the study of criminology with those of victimology and gender studies - drawing particularly on the influence of feminism. It analyses processes of criminalisation and social control, and their structural biases. It explores fears, anxieties and worries about crime, as well as particular vulnerabilities to crime. The book employs a range of learning devices to support the student reader, including: Chapter overviews. Case studies and examples. Study questions. Further reading at the end of each chapter.