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Feminist Theories in Criminology and the Application to Cybercrimes
Feminist theories and perspectives place gender at the center of discourse and analysis. This chapter examines feminist theories and perspectives in...
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Unravelling the Threads: Contemporary Craftivism and Its Origins
This chapter contextualises the practice of yarn bombing through a discussion of the broader craftivist movement within which it is situated. In a...
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Manifestations and Interpretations of Violence
This chapter disaggregates the function and meaning of two repertoires of violence: ‘audience-oriented violence’ (car-burning episodes and everyday...
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Male Violence Against Women in the Global South: What We Know and What We Don’t Know
Most of the empirical and theoretical work on violence against women has thus far centered on the plight of women who live in the Global North. The...
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Culture, Mental Illness, and Prison: A New Zealand Perspective
As is true internationally, in New Zealand, cultural minorities are overrepresented in the prison population. Māori are the indigenous people of New...
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Energy and the Anthropocene: security challenges and solutions
This paper explores the role that energy regimes, and the search for energy security, has had in sha** humans and their societies, and the effects...
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Biomedical Research vs. Biodiversity Conservation in the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon: Searching for Law Enforcement Where There is Lack of Accountability
Despite global efforts aimed at the creation of novel mechanisms and technologies to control and trace the illegal wildlife trade, the magnitude of...
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Virtual Violence: Cyberspace, Misogyny and Online Abuse
As the twenty-first century continues its steady march, the Internet has become an important part of daily life for much of the globe. Many of us...
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Slaughterhouses: The Language of Life, the Discourse of Death
This chapter explores condoned animal abuse in the slaughterhouse and food production processes. Through a consideration of extant ethnographic...
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Animals in Scientific Research
The phenomenon of animal abuse in science can be traced back to antiquity. However, the significant rise in the current use of animals in research...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the framework of this book and the bodies of literature it refers to. It describes the main questions that the book aims to...
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United States
Responses to domestic violence homicides in the United States have shifted greatly over the last few decades. One example is the establishment of a...
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Introduction
The word privacy does not appear in the constitutional text. No one mentioned the term at the Philadelphia Convention, nor was there any reference to...
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Criminalization of Violence against Women and Laws against Domestic Violence: A Comparative Study of the United States and South Asia (Pakistan and Bangladesh)
A global movement for the criminalization of domestic violence has been spreading from the 1970s in the context of the International Women’s...
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Codification and Application of the Genetic-Social Framework
The Genetic-Social sensitising device employed in this book has been used in earlier forms to suggest a ‘way forward’ beyond post-postmodern...
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Defending Your Country…and Gender—Legal Challenges and Opportunities Confronting Women in the Military
Women’s ability to participate fully in all aspects of US military service has, Amy Gaudion recounts, received a boost with the December 2015...
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Historical Pollution and Long-Term Liability: A Global Challenge Needing an International Approach?
Historical pollution is a widespread problem: it is not only an old and unresolved question for many developed countries, but is, or will soon...
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The Sixth Mass Extinction
After the five mass extinctions on Earth that were caused by meteorite impacts, volcanism and large-scale climate change, several scientists predict...
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Illegal Shipments of E–waste from the EU to China
The illegal shipment of electrical and electronic waste, also called e-waste, from the European Union to China provides an example of a complex and...
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Baby Snatching
Most often, child custody is a civil matter. However, it may become a criminal matter when children are kidnapped. Nonviolent, familial kidnap** is...