In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of
women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the …

Feminist scholars have criticized the mistreatment of female offenders by the criminal justice
system. While current empirical research supports this proposition, a summary of existing …

A decade after its first publication, Class, Race, Gender, and Crime remains the only non-
edited book to systematically address the impact of class, race, and gender on …

Drawing on surveys of 4,860 prisoners' perceptions of the quality of prison life in 49
establishments in England and Wales, this paper examines the extent to which prisoners …

I. Intersectionality, in italiano traducibile con 'intersezionalità', è diventato un termine sempre
più diffuso, nelle scienze sociali e giuridiche, quando si affrontano temi come l'identità, la …

In this work Maurice Vanstone provides an authoritative and original account of the history of
probation. This invaluable reference tool offers readers a new way of reading probation …

A significant body of research examines the influence of offender gender on court-related
decision making and typically finds that women deemed “worthy of protection” are afforded …

There are tremendous gaps in our theories and knowledge about girls who have committed
crimes deemed so serious as to justify adult sentencing. This study is guided by a feminist …

Why are there pronounced gender differences in rates of criminal victimization? Does
gender influence the response of the criminal justice system and other parts of the …

Taking inspiration from Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism, by Kwame Nkrumah
of the thesis by Lenin that Imperialism (is) the highest stage of capitalism, I postulate that …