towards a criminology for the global era
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cain, Maureen > (ed.)
- Creator
- Howe, Adrian > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Walklate, Sandra
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2008
- Thesaurus
- mensenrechten, zwarte vrouwen, vluchtelingen, inheemse volkeren, armoede, politiek, prostitutie
- Description
- This book is about the harms and crimes to which women 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 the global financial institutions as well as the effects of growing economic polarisation both in pockets of the developed world and most markedly in the global south. Another theme addresses human rights from the standpoint of indigenous women, minority women and those seeking refuge. Women in the poorest countries are sceptical as to the efficacy of rights claims in the face of the depredations of international and global capital, and the social dislocation produced thereby. In the end there is no solution without politics, and in both the opening and the closing sections of this book there are chapters which address this. What continues to be special about women's political practice is the connection between the groundedness of small groups and the fluidity and flexibility of regional and international networks: the effective politics of the global age.