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By Venezia Michalsen

Although there is plentiful research on the impact of marriage, employment and the military on desistance from criminal behaviour in the lives of men, far less is known about the factors most important to women’s desistance. Imprisoned women are far more likely than their male counterparts to be…

Hardback – 2018-08-31 
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Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

By Rimple Mehta

This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946. Drawing on original fieldwork, this book explores these women’s understanding of…

Hardback – 2018-08-31 
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Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship

Edited by May-Len Skilbrei, Marlene Spanger

The problem of prostitution, sex work or sex for sale can often be misunderstood, if we do not take into consideration its spatial, temporal and political context. Understanding Sex for Sale aims to understand how prostitution, sex work or sex for sale are delineated, contested and understood in…

Hardback – 2018-07-20 
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Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale

Edited by Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch, JaneMaree Maher

This edited collection addresses intimate partner violence, risk and security as global issues. Although intimate partner violence, risk and security are intimately connected they are rarely considered in tandem in the context of global security. Yet intimate partner violence causes widespread…

Hardback – 2018-06-28 
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Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice

By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra L. Walklate

This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimisation. Covering theory, policy and practice, this new edition has been fully revised to reflect the wider changes, development and influence…

Paperback – 2018-06-08 
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Edited by Kimberly D. Dodson

Current estimates indicate that approximately 2.2 million people are incarcerated in federal, state, and local correctional facilities across the United States. There are another 5 million under community correctional supervision. Many of these individuals fall into the classification of…

Hardback – 2018-05-17 
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By Thomas Barker

Outlaw bikers represent a very small percentage of motorcycle riders who join motorcycle clubs, but they receive disproportionate attention due to their mystique, unconventional behavior, and violence. Although the outlaw biker phenomenon started in the United States, it has since spread throughout…

Paperback – 2018-05-07 
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Edited by Teela Sanders, Mary Laing

The exponential growth of sexual commerce, migration and movement of people into the sex industry, as well as localised concerns about transactional sex, are key areas of interest across the urban west. Given the complex regulatory frameworks under-which the sex industry manifests, the role of the…

Hardback – 2017-12-07
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Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale

Edited by Linda Moore, Phil Scraton, Azrini Wahidin

In 2007, the Corston Report recommended a far-reaching, radical, ‘women-centred’ approach to women’s imprisonment in England and Wales. It suggested a ‘fundamental re-thinking’ about how services to support women in conflict with the law are delivered in custody and in the community, recommending…

Paperback – 2017-11-27
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By Rosemary Sheehan, Chris Trotter

Women continue to be one of the fastest growing groups of offenders with an increasing group of women involved in the criminal justice system around the world. Whilst internationally women comprise a low percentage of the total prison population, there is an escalating use of custody inextricably…

Hardback – 2017-08-21
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International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

By Karen Evans

At the end of the twentieth century a step-change in thinking about the offending behaviour of women began to impact on policy-makers concerned with the treatment of female offenders. A growing number of nations, states and organisations both national and supra-national in nature began to…

Hardback – 2017-07-27
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Routledge Critical Studies in Crime, Diversity and Criminal Justice

Edited by Marie Segrave, Laura Vitis

Technological developments move at lightening pace and can bring with them new possibilities for social harm. This book brings together original empirical and theoretical work examining how digital technologies both create and sustain various forms of gendered violence and provide platforms for…

Hardback – 2017-05-30
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Routledge Studies in Crime and Society