List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Gender and Crime
Francesca Spina
Part I: Theories and Patterns of Offending
1. Feminist Criminological Theories
Claire M. Renzetti
2. Masculinities, Crime, and Criminalization
Stephen Tomsen
3. Theoretical Explanations for Variation in Gender and Crime Rates
Casey Cavanaugh, Philip D. McCormack, and Kaitlyn Clarke
4. The Inherent Difficulties of Doing Research in the Field of Gender and Crime: Do the Vagaries of Reliability Interfere with Validation?
Gary Berte
5. Gender, Mental Illness, and Offending Behavior
Michael P. Accordino and Lindsey Fullmer
6. Gender and Deliquency
Sherill V. C. Morris-Francis
7. Risk Factors for Gang Involvement: A Gendered Perspective
Randy Seepersad, Corin Bailey, and Linda Mohammed
8. Rewriting the Code: Marginalization, Masculinity, and the Evolution of a Singaporean Prison Gang
Narayanan Ganapathy
9. Women and White-Collar Crime
Ido Baum and Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
Part II: Gender and Victimization
10. Policing LGBTQ+ Communities
Angelo Brown
11. Policing SOGIE Hate Crime in a Liberal State: The Case of Malta
Mary Grace Vella
12. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Africa: Between Progress and Struggle
Zanele Nyoni-Wood
13. He Said, She Said, They Said: The Place of Gender in Sexual Violence Theory and Prevention
Jordan E. Dougherty and Melanie A. Beres
14. Gender-Based Hate Crimes: A Contested Socio-Legal Terrain
Marian Duggan
15. Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women
Wendelin Hume
16. Gender and Institutional Child Sexual Abuse: What do We Know and What do We Need to Know?
Jodi Death
17. Connected Victimizations: Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse
Rochelle Stevenson
18. Not Just My Husband: Role of In-Laws in Violence Instigation and Perpetration against Women in Pakistan
Faiza Tayyab
19. Battered Women Syndrome in Murder Trials
Francis X. Spina
Part III: Gendered Experiences and Challenges within the Criminal Justice System
20. Gender, Crime, and the United Nations
Rosemary Barberet and Sebastián Galleguillos
21. The Criminalization of Girls
Gilly Sharpe
22. Two Sides of the Colonial Coin: Criminalization of the Black Girlchild in Barbados
Kristina Hinds and Marsha Hinds Myrie
23. Gender Dynamics and Criminalization of Child Marriage in Ghana: Beyond Exploitation and Chronological Age
Sylvia Esther Gyan and Isaac Mandah Boafo
24. Capital Punishment and Social Time
Scott Phillips
25. The Criminalization of Pregnancy before and after Dobbs
Grace Howard
26. Pregnant Women and Mothers in Prison: Health Needs and Support Services
Diksha Sapkota and Susan Dennison
27. ‘Women Don’t belong in Prison:’ Incarcerated Women and Their “Disordered Relationships with Men” in Guyana
Mellissa Ifill
28. Double Imprisonment: The Trans Experience in Prison – Issues and Policy
Sandra Scicluna
29. Beyond the Binary: An Intersectional Look at Gender and Corrections
Elizabeth C.M. Carlisle and TaLisa J. Carter
30. The Role of Gender in Effective Probation Practice
Nancy R. Gartner
31. Gender Issues in Veterans Treatment Courts
Sabrina S. Rapisarda and Kimberly R. Kras
Part IV: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions in Gender and Crime
32. Beyond the Carceral Approach to Sex Work and Sex Trafficking: A Structural Perspective
Rosa J. Cho
33. “Partner with Benefits”: A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Intimate Partner Involved Sex Trafficking
Sarah M. Gardy, Kaci A. Crook, and Joan A. Reid
34. A Program Evaluation of a Residential Treatment Facility for Adolescent Boys
Michael P. Accordino and Francesca Spina
35. The Role of Gender in Terrorist Organizations
William P. Sturgeon
36. Gendered Harms of Corporate Crime
Penny Crofts, Honni van Rijswijk, and Jaya Dadwal
37. Women in Legal Professions
Janet H. Pumphrey
38. Women in Leadership Positions within Corrections
Ora Starks
Index
Biography
Francesca Spina is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Criminal Justice Department at Westfield State University, United States. Her most recent publication is Think Like a Terrorist to Combat Terrorism and Radicalization in Prison (CRC Press, 2022).
"Much of this handbook's overall value lies in how, by comprehensively addressing issues of gender and power inequalities, it combines internationalism with intersectionality. Its internationalism is displayed in chapters on Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Oceania, and South America, written by scholars from those regions. Its intersectionality highlights how factors such as race, class, and sexuality (including those facing non-binary and transgender individuals) affect people's realities and identities in the criminal justice system. The handbook is especially attentive to both the variety of relevant theoretical perspectives and to underresearched issues, such as the criminalization of girls, child marriage in Ghana, and pregnancy before and after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022). It is, quite simply, a landmark volume."
- Piers Beirne, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Southern Maine, USA.
