This book is a collection of essays on gender and crime. With topics such as: theoretical and methodological approaches, media, crime and gender, violence, victimization and offending, prostitution, gang membership, computer hacking, drug use, theft, white-collar crime, sentencing and punishment, offender re-entry and the criminal justice system.
The articles cover topics as wife abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, institutional response to violence against women, the battered woman movement and battered women who kill.