Oxford Handbook of Gender Sex and Crime

<p>Research on gender sex and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines a growing number of countries and on a wider range of crimes. <em>The Oxford Handbook</em> <em>of Gender Sex and Crime</em> reflects this growing diversity and provides authoritative overviews of current research and theory on how gender and sex shape crime and criminal justice responses to it.</p><p>The editors Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy have assembled a diverse cast of criminologists historians legal scholars psychologists and sociologists from a number of countries to discuss key concepts and debates central to the field. <em>The</em> <em>Handbook</em> includes examinations of the historical and contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as well as biological psychological and social science perspectives on gender sex and criminal activity. Several essays discuss the ways in which sex and gender influence legal and popular reactions to crime. An important theme throughout <em>The Handbook</em> is the intersection of sex and gender with ethnicity class age peer groups and community as influences on crime and justice. Individual chapters investigate both conventional topics - such as domestic abuse and sexual violence - and topics that have only recently drawn the attention of scholars - such as human trafficking honor killing gender violence during war state rape and genocide.</p><p><em>The Oxford Handbook of Gender Sex and Crime </em>offers an unparalleled and comprehensive view of the connections among gender sex and crime in the United States and in many other countries. Its insights illuminate both traditional areas of study in the field and pathways for developing cutting-edge research questions.</p>