Women, crime and social harm : towards a criminology for the global age / edited by Maureen Cain and Adrian Howe.
This book of eleven chapters and an Introduction is by and about women, the harms and crimes to which they are subjected as a result of global social processes and their efforts to take control of their own futures. The chapters explore the criminogenic and damaging consequences of the policies of t...
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Criminogenesis and the war against drugs : (another) story of absented women / Maureen Cain
- Violence against women : rethinking the local-global nexus in feminist strategy / Adrian Howe
- Globalisation, human security, fundamentalism and women's rights : emergent contradictions / Peggy Antrobus
- The gender of borderpanic : women in circuits of security, state, globalisation and new (and old) empire / Suvendrini Perera
- Xeno-racism and the demonisation of refugees : a gendered perspective / Liz Fekete
- Dangerous Liaisons : sex work, globalisation, morality and the state in contemporary India / Brinda Bose
- Global rights, local harms : the case of the human rights of women in sub-Saharan Africa / Esther Kisaakye
- The globalisation of international human rights law, Aboriginal women and the practice of Aboriginal customary law / Megan Davis
- Women and natural disasters : state crime and discourses in vulnerability / Penny Green
- Global feminist networks on domestic violence / Rhoda Reddock
- Local contexts and globalised knowledge : what can international criminal victimisation surveys tell us about women's diverse lives? / Sandra Walklate.