Violence, gender and justice

1. Introducing Violence, Gender and Justice

Evidence and Violence

Organisation of the Book

2. 'Cold-blooded Lies': Mediating Sex 'n Violence

Crime News

Murder, gender and media

Celebrity crime

Sex 'n violence

Paedophile panic

Soham

Conclusion

Notes: Issues for Reflection

Complementary Readings

3. Intimacy, Secrets and Statistics

Crime Measures and Gendered Violence

Measuring Sex and Violent Crime - Problems and Possibilities

Violence, Sex and Crime

Violent crime

Sex crime

Patterns of offending

Stranger Danger or Home Dangerous Home

The family man?

Dangerous love

Are men victims too?

Conclusion

Notes: Issues for Reflection

Complementary Readings

4. Gendering Criminology?

Theoretical Histories

Crime and science

Crime and society

Realisms

Criminal Women?

Women as victims

Criminal justice for women

Theorising women and crime

Conclusion

Notes: Issues for Reflection

Complementary Readings

5. Confronting Violence: People, Policies and Places

Challenging Male Violence: Feminist Action

The refuge and rape crisis movements

State Responses to Gendered Violence

State services' failure to confront violence in individual cases (then)

State services' failure to confront violence in individual cases (now)

State services' failure to challenge 'gender'

Failure to confront violence as gendered

Conclusion

Notes: Issues for Reflection

Complementary Readings

6. The Family of Man

Family Histories

An Englishman's home is his castle: family stories

Mediated Men

Power, Place and Psychology

Freud and family

Sex, knowledge and subjectivity

Deconstructing the family of man

Absent Fathers, Feminists and Broken Families

Conclusion

Notes: Issues for Reflection

Complementary Readings

7. The Law, the Courts and Conviction

Rape: the Law, the Courts and Conviction

The legal definition of rape

Penile penetration

Consent

Inexorable logic or Inexcusable law?

Sexual experience and rape

Conclusion

Notes: Issues for Reflection

Complementary Readings

8. Embodying Violence: Masculinity, Culture and Crime

Identity Intersections

Poverty

Youth

Race

Sexuality

The Boys are Back in Town: Gendering Criminology

Psychologising gender

Sociology and gender

Post-modernism, masculinities and subjectivity

Culture, Violation and Post-modern Bodies

Conclusion

Notes: Issues for Reflection

Complementary Readings

9. Conclusions: The Cost of Gendered Crime

Counting the Costs: Crime

Domestic abuses

Rape

Sexual violence against children

Prostitution

Counting the Costs: Power and Knowledge

Mediated crime

Statistics and secrets

Gendering criminology: feminism

People, policies and agencies

Family

Law

Masculinity

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index