Understanding gender, crime, and justice/
Merry Morash
- 1st.ed.
- Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, c2006.
- xv, 311 p.
1. Key research questions about gender, crime and justice. -- 2. Gender and the law. -- 3. Gender-related victimization. -- 4. Social movements and the response to victims of gender-related crime. -- 5. The influence of context and individual differences on responses to gender-related victimization. -- 6. Explanations of illegal behavior. -- 7. Gender and response to lawbreakers. -- 8. Advances and challenges.