1st Edition
Gender and Crime Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
Preface
Part I. Theoretical Foundations
1. The Invention of Feminist Criminology: Foundational Perspectives
Francis T. Cullen, Sandra L. Browning, and Cheryl Lero Jonson
2. Current Perspectives on Female Offending
Stacy De Coster and Lisa Broidy
3. Masculinities and Crime
Stephen Tomsen and James W. Messerschmidt
4. Moving beyond Binary Sex: Understanding the Victimization and Offending Patterns of LGBTQ+ People in the United States
Y. Gail Hurst
Part II. Race and Gender
5. Black Criminology and Female Offending
Leah C. Butler and Cecilia Chouhy
Part III. Life-Course Perspectives
6. Women and Social Bonds during the Desistance Process
Katheryne Pugliese, Lila Kazemian, and Alex R. Piquero
7. Gender, Narrative Identity, and Desistance
Damon M. Petrich and Heejin Lee
8. Gender, Peers, and Delinquency
Kyle J. Thomas and Jennifer O’Neill
9. Attitudes toward Criminal Justice Policies: Further Evidence against the “Gender Gap”
Alexander L. Burton, Haley N. Puddy, Sunmin Hong, and Velmer S. Burton, Jr.
Part IV. Three Realms of Criminality
10. Risky Lifestyles and Girls’ Involvement in Crime
Pamela Wilcox and Carlos M. Gonzales
11. Gender and White-Collar Crime
Nicole Leeper Piquero
12. Women’s Involvement in Terrorist Organizations
Melissa M. Sloan and Murat Haner
Biography
Sandra L. Browning is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.
Leah C. Butler is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.
Cheryl Lero Jonson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Xavier University.
RECOMMENDED by CHOICE (April 2025)
This edited volume provides readers with an excellent overview of issues pertaining to gender and crime. The chapters in part 1 thoroughly summarize and assess the early contributors to feminist criminology, while later chapters fill the gaps left by those early writings. Three standout chapters include one with special attention to Black female offenders, one on masculinity, and one on LGBTQ+/gender diverse communities. These chapters demonstrate the importance of intersectionality in modern criminological theories. In addition to updating criminology to account for these overlooked or undertheorized populations, the chapters do a great job of considering the policy implications of the contributions' findings as well as avenues for further research. Additional chapters on desistance offer insights into how and why women move away from a life of crime in ways that are different from and similar to men, while the chapter on women in terrorist organizations highlights the very important issue of female involvement in violent organizations, following in the footsteps of sociologist Kathleen Blee. Overall, this volume comprehensively outlines many criminology theories while updating those theories to upend the male bias that has characterized much scholarly work.
--J. A. Beicken, Rocky Mountain College
