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Gender Differences in Occupational Attitudes Among Chinese Judges
The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of empirical studies exploring the relationships between legal and extra-legal factors and judicial...
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Gender Violence: A Portrait of Women for Change’s Fight Against Gender-Based Violence in Zambia
Using the works of a women-led organization active in the area of gender violence in Zambia, this chapter explores how women-led initiatives are...
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Gender-Egalitarianism and the Construction of Official Rape Rates
Cross-national variations in official crime rates likely represent several concurrent criminological and non-criminological phenomena beyond actual ...
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Intoxication, Gender and Sexuality
In this chapter, we consider how experiences of intoxication are shaped by gender and sexuality. Whilst we note that alcohol, in particular, has...
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Gender differences in online abuse: the case of Dutch politicians
Online abuse and threats towards politicians have become a significant concern in the Netherlands, like in many other countries across the world....
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Gender, Crime and Justice
This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It provides...
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Gender, Power and Criminalisation
In his seminal text Power, Crime and Mystification (Box 1983), Steven Box engages in a detailed examination of women’s experiences of crime and harm,...
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The impact of correctional officer gender on prison suicide
Correctional officers are critical members of the prison community. However, scholarship rarely considers how correctional officers contribute to...
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Anti-femininity or Gender-Nonconformity Prejudice? An Investigation of Femme, Twink, and Butch LGBTQ Victimization Using Norm-Centered Stigma Theory
Recent scholarship has highlighted the negative treatment of femme/feminized people (often labeled as anti-femininity or femmephobia) when it comes...
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Gender differences in intervention effects on delinquency for justice-involved youth: A preliminary meta-analysis
ObjectivesTo investigate whether psychosocial interventions for justice-involved youth are equally effective at reducing delinquent behavior for...
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More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions
The gender gap in white-collar crime perpetration is well-established, yet reasons for women’s underrepresentation among this offending group remain...
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Historically Locating Muslim Women: Race, Gender and Coloniality in Australia
This chapter contextualises the study and historically locates Australian Muslim women in the broader context of Australian social relations. Drawing...
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Trajectories of Offending and Mental Health Service Use: Similarities and Differences by Gender and Indigenous Status in an Australian Birth Cohort
Mental illness is firmly established as a risk factor for criminal legal system contact, particularly for women and Indigenous people. While patterns...
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Intimate partner violence and third-party legal mobilization: considering the role of sexuality, gender, and violence severity
ObjectivesThis study examines how sexuality, gender, and severity affect the willingness of third parties to mobilize facets of the criminal justice...
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Understanding Gender and Diversity in Europe Experiences of Migrant Single Mothers in Denmark
This book is a socio-legal interdisciplinary study on gender and diversity in multicultural societies of Europe. It uses secondary data to discuss...
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A Mixed-Method Analysis of the News Media Framing of Gender Non-Conforming Victims of Homicide in the U.S. from 2012 to 2022
Recent analyses of transgender homicide victims find that the news media often uses improper terminology, delegitimizes, and victim blames them....
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Gender
This chapter foregrounds gender-related dynamics of power as connected to crime and victimisation. The contextual framing for the chapter focuses on...
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Do Adolescents Engage in Delinquency to Cope with Depressive Symptoms? Revisiting the Longitudinal Link Between Delinquency and Depressive Symptoms While Considering Moderation by Ethnicity, Adolescent Phase, and Gender
The co-occurrence between delinquency and depression in adolescence is well-documented. However, Psychology (Failure model and Acting out Model) and...
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“Women’s Sexuality Captured”: Another Form of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the Swati Patriarchal Space
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a phenomenon that is deeply rooted in gender inequalities which endure through social institutions like family and...
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Gender Balance in the Criminal Justice System: Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Serbia
In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of the current gender situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s, North Macedonia’s, and Serbia’s police...