Papers over de relatie tussen gender, misdaad en slachtofferschap: de rol van de media, vrouwelijke daders van geweld, mannelijkheid en misdaad, slachtoffers en gender, en behandeling van daders van geweld tegen vrouwen binnen relaties. De bundel bevat de volgende bijdragen: A genealogy of women's madness / door Sylvie Firgon: Passion, marriage and murder : analysing the press discourse / door Maggie Wykes: Women's crime and media coverage : making explanations / door Bronwyn Naylor: Sex crime news from abroad / door Keith Soothill: Conceptualizing violence by women / door Margaret Shaw: In the name of love : women and initiation to illicit drugs / door Lisa Maher: Child-killing by parents : social, legal and gender issues / door Ania Wilczynski: Men's own stories, lives and violence : research as practive / door Richard Thurston en John Beynon:'A father's 'normal' love'? : masculinities, criminology and the family / door Richard Collier: Target women : women's victimization and white-collar crime / door Hazel Croall: Women-talk and men-talk : defining and resisting victim status / door Julie M. Owen: The modelling of threat incidence : evidence from the British Crime Survey / door Andromachi Tseloni: Fear of crime : children and gendered socialization / door Jo Goodey: Child sexual abuse and age of consent laws : a response to some libertarian arguments for 'sexual liberty' / door A. Mark Liddle: Re-orienting the criminal justice stystem : towards a consideration of victims' rights / door Rob Mawby en Sandra Walklate: Evaluating criminal justice programmes for violent men / door Russell P. Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash, Kate Cavanagh en Ruth Lewis: An overview of community-based intervention programmes for men who are violent or abusive in the home / door Ruth Francis: The role of the police in combating domestic violence / door Sam Wright.