With brand new chapters on theory, history and globalization, this book, written within a strong human rights framework, provides students with a current and critical guide to the area

Chapter 1: Introduction
PART 1: Gender & Crime in Context
Chapter 2: Theorising Gender and Crime
Chapter 3: Gender, Crime and History
Chapter 4: Contemporary Issues in Gender and Crime in a Globalised World
PART 2: Out of Control
Chapter 5: Women as Offenders
Chapter 6: Men as Offenders
PART 3: In Need of Care
Chapter 7: Women as Victims
Chapter 8: Men as Victims
PART 4: In Control
Chapter 9: Gender and Criminal Justice Workers
Chapter 10: The Criminal Justice System: A Gendered Site
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Marisa Silvestri is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Kingston University. Her main research interests lie at the intersections of policing, gender and criminal justice. More specifically her work centres on exploring the position and role of women in police leadership and the gendered nature of the criminal justice system in relation to its impact on women offenders and victims. As a strong advocate of participatory action research with an emphasis on practitioner involvement, her work not only advances theoretical understandings of these issues but aims to inform policy and practice. She has published extensively in the field, including Women in Charge: policing, gender and leadership (Willan) and 'Gender and Crime' in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (co-authored with Frances Heidensohn (Oxford). She is also an editorial board member for Policing & Society and is currently working on exploring the gendered impacts of the current police reform agenda on the selection of its chief officers, together with an analysis of the gendered nature of language within policing.