156 Pages
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Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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Female Crime , first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender which underpin many contemporary crime theories. In reveals the ways in which male-centred norms dominated much analysis, and how crude stereotypes of women were a common attribute to the armoury of criminological research.
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Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The Reasonable Man 2. The Frustrated Offender 3. Learning Crime 4. Masculinity Theory 5. Conformity as Control 6. Crime and Stigma 7. The Women’s Liberation Thesis 8. Re-writing the Human Sciences: The Impact of Feminism 9. A Feminist Agenda for Criminology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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