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Preface | |
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Key Questions About Gender, Crime and Justice | |
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Criteria used to select the theories that will be described | |
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Postmodern themes | |
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Brief overview | |
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Key terms | |
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Early theoretical work | |
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Injustices in Prior Policies and Practices | |
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Advances in Theory | |
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Ways of Knowing about gender, crime and justice | |
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Ways of Thinking about Gender, Crime, and Justice | |
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Organization of the chapters | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review and Discussion | |
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Gender and the Law | |
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Introduction | |
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Laws against gender-relate victimization | |
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Laws related to reproduction and child protection | |
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Laws against prostitution | |
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Pornography and the law | |
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International law | |
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Law prohibiting consensual sexual activity between same sex adults | |
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Limits of the law | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review and Discussion | |
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Websites to Explore | |
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Gender-Related Victimization | |
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Description of gender-related victimization | |
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Fear and Everyday Violence | |
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Naming forms of gender-related victimization | |
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Denial of victimization | |
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Explaining gender-related victimization | |
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Immigration through marriage: The confluence of structural inequality, culture, and gender stereotypes | |
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Victimized offenders | |
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Effects of gender- and sexual orientation-related victimization | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review and Discussion | |
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Websites to Explore | |
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Social Movements and the Response to Victims of Gender-Related Crime | |
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Activists and social movements | |
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The Feminist Movement | |
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Movement activities aimed at diverse populations | |
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International priorities | |
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Backlash | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review and Discussion | |
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Websites to explore | |
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The Influence of Context and Individual Differences on Responses to Gender - Related Victimization | |
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Community characteristics and response to victims | |
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Organizational context and response to victims | |
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Individual-level influences on responses to victims | |
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Recasting victims as offenders | |
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Transforming the victim through court talk | |
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The media | |
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Victims exercising agency | |
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Constraints on agency | |
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Decisions about victims of gender-related crimes | |
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Too much criminal justice system? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review and Discussion | |
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Websites to explore | |
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Explanations of Illegal Behavior | |
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Gender differences in amount and type of illegal behavior | |
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Economic marginalization | |
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Public policy and involvement in crime | |
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Questions answered by macro-level explanations | |
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The life course and pathways perspectives | |
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Gender identity and crime | |
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Biological explanations for females' and males' illegal behavior | |
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Offenders exercising agency in choosing to break the law | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review and Discussion | |
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Websites to explore | |
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Gender and Response to Lawbreakers | |
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Introduction | |
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Macro-level influences on responses to lawbreakers | |
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Organizational context and response to people who break the law | |
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Correctional and punitive responses | |
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Individual Level Explanations of Responses to Offenders | |
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Offenders' exercising agency: personal resources and decisions | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review and Discussion | |
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Websites to explore | |
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Advances and Challenges in Understanding Gender, Crime, and Justice | |
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Overview of advances | |
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Global perspective and globalization | |
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The relevance of context | |
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Intersections | |
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Agency and empowerment | |
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Complex theories | |
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Transgressing academic fields and theories within fields | |
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Gender and sexual orientation | |
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Research approaches | |
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Final comments on justice | |
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Public policy, legislation, and change | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review and Discussion | |
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Websites to Explore | |
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Definitions | |
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References | |