The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change
Comprehensive and current, this handbook combines a wide range of international contributors to chart the uneasy relationship between feminism, criminology and victimology. It explores both the historical and contemporary questions posed by feminist work and is essential reading for anyone interested in feminism, criminology and social change.
Publication Date:
2020-07-02Book Series:
ESCFSCEditors:
- Sandra Walklate
- Kate Fitz-Gibbon
- JaneMaree Maher
- Jude McCulloch
Chapters:
Part One: The Origins of Feminist Criminology- Introduction to Part One
- Chapter 1: Evolving Feminist Perspectives in Criminology and Victimology and Their Influence on Understandings of, and Responses to, Intimate Partner Violence
- Chapter 2: Feminist Perspectives in Criminology: Early Feminist Perspectives
- Chapter 3: Feminist Approaches to Victimology
- Chapter 4: Feminist Activism and Scholarship in Resisting and Responding to Gender-based Abuse
- Chapter 5: Feminist Criminology in a Time of ‘Digital Feminism’: Can the #MeToo Movement Create Fundamental Cultural Change?
- Introduction to Part Two
- Chapter 6: Gender Violence Law Reform and Feminist Criminology in Brazil
- Chapter 7: The Contribution of Critical Ecofeminism to the Criminological Debate in Spain: Debating All Rules of All Tribes
- Chapter 8: Public Attitude Towards Rape Crime and the Treatment of Its Victims in Delhi City
- Chapter 9: On Honour, Culture and Violence Against Women in Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
- Introduction to Part Three
- Chapter 10: Masculinities and Interpersonal Violence
- Chapter 11: Disrupting the Boundaries of the Academe: Co-creating Knowledge and Sex Work ‘Academic-activism’
- Chapter 12: Social Change and the Banality of Patriarchal Oppression and Gender Inequality
- Chapter 13: Reflections on Women’s Resistance and Social Change in Africa
- Chapter 14: Speaking Life, Speaking Death: Jerusalemite Children Confronting Israel’s Technologies of Violence
- Chapter 15: Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place – Human Rights, Life Imprisonment and Gender Stereotyping: A Critical Analysis of Khamtokhu and Aksenchik v. Russia (2017)
- Introduction to Part Four
- Chapter 16: Bringing Racialised Women and Girls into View: An Intersectional Approach to Punishment and Incarceration
- Chapter 17: Technology and Violence Against Women
- Chapter 18: Enhancing Feminist Understandings of Violence Against Women: Looking to the Future
- Chapter 19: Criminological Lessons on/from Sexual Violence
- Chapter 20: Gender-based Violence: Case Studies from the Global South
- Chapter 21: Postscript. Feminism, Activism and Social Change: A Call to Action for Feminist Criminology
- Index
