Feminist Theories of Crime

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Contents: Introduction Part I Feminist Epistemology: Researching girls and violence: facing the dilemmas of fieldwork, Michele J. Burman, Susan A. Batchelor and Jane A. Brown Producing feminist knowledge: lessons from women in trouble, Elizabeth Comack Women's violence to men in intimate relationships: working on a puzzle, Russell P. Dobash and R. Emerson Dobash. Part II Patriarchy, Crime and Justice: Women in the street-level drug economy: continuity or change?, Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly The risks of street prostitution: punters, police and protesters, Teela Sanders Theorizing about violence: observations from the Economic and Social Research Council's violence research program, Elizabeth A. Stanko. Part III Masculinities and Femininities: Accomplishing femininity among the girls in the gang, Karen Joe Laidler and Geoffrey Hunt Girls' violence: beyond dangerous masculinity, Katherine Irwin and Meda Chesney-Lind Missing gender in cases of infamous school violence: investigating research and media explanations, Mona J.E. Danner and Dianne Cyr Carmody Immigration, masculinity, and intimate partner violence from the standpoint of domestic violence service providers and Vietnamese-origin women, Hoan Bui and Merry Morash. Part IV Intersections: An argument for Black feminist criminology: understanding African American women's experiences with intimate partner abuse using an integrated approach, Hillary Potter 'It's not where you live, it's how you live': how young women negotiate conflict and violence in the inner city, Nikki Jones Walking a tightrope: the many faces of violence in the lives of racialized immigrant girls and young women, Yasmin Jiwani Intersections of immigration and domestic violence: voices of battered immigrant women, Edna Erez, Madelaine Adelman and Carol Gregory. Part V Feminist Assessments of the Criminal Justice Enterprise: Gender bias and juvenile justice revisited: a multiyear analysis, John M. Macdonald and Meda Chesney-Lind Criers, liars and manipulators: probation officers' views of girls, Emily Gaarder, Nancy Rodriguez and Marjorie S. Zatz The words change but the melody lingers: the persistence of battered woman syndrome in criminal cases involving battered women, Kathleen J. Ferraro Moral agent or actuarial subject: risk and Canadian women's imprisonment, Kelly Hannah-Moffat Embodied surveillance and the gendering of punishment, Jill A. McCorkel Celling Black bodies: Black women in the global prison industrial complex, Julia Sudbury. Part VI Feminist Perspectives on the Law and on Justice: Predators: the social construction of 'stranger-danger' in Washington state as a form of patriarchal ideology, Neal S. Websdale Feminist engagement with restorative justice, Kathleen Daly and Julie Stubbs Gendered war and gendered peace: truth commissions and postconflict gender violence: lessons from South Africa, Tristan Anne Borer Name index.