Gendering Criminology: Crime and Justice Today

by Shelly Clevenger, Jordana N. Navarro

Overview

Gendering Criminology provides a contemporary guide for understanding the role of gender in criminal engagement and experiences as well as reactions to these offenses among laypersons and agents of social control. The textbook provides evidence for the argument that gender socially situates people in their risks for criminal engagement, victimization, and what occurs in the aftermath of crime: arrest, the judicial process, and sentencing. Aside from investigating the role of men and women, the authors also explore the experiences of LGBTQIA+ communities involved in or working within the criminal-legal system. The volume provides a comprehensive account of various offenses—violent and nonviolent—and individual motivations, drives, and methods, to help students develop the skills they need to work as professionals in and around the criminal-legal system.
 
Key features:

• Applies theoretical concepts to real-life applications, media bytes, and case studies
• Includes new and timely information regarding gender and online victimization
• Provides an overview of each topic within eleven chapters, delving into the literature in each area
• Promotes active learning activities in each chapter to fully immerse and engage students in the material

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520298286
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/22/2022
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Shelly Clevenger is Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Victim Studies at Sam Houston State University. With Jordana Navarro, she previously coauthored and coedited The Intersection between Intimate Partner Abuse, Technology, and Cybercrime: Examining the Virtual Enemy, Understanding Victimology: An Active-Learning Approach, and Teaching Criminological Theory. 
 
Jordana N. Navarro is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at The Citadel. Previously she was Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Criminal Justice Concentration at Tennessee Technological University. With Shelly Clevenger, she has authored multiple books and peer-reviewed articles on cybercrime, intimate partner abuse, and sexual violence.

Both authors have also presented their research to the US Congress.

Table of Contents

Preface: New Language for a New Way of Thinking ix

1 The Story of Gender: Definitions, Origins, and Current Issues 1

2 The Why and How: Theories of Gender, Crime, and Victimization 28

3 "Manly" Crimes; The Relationship between Masculinity and Criminality 57

4 "Ladies Only": An Examination of Women and Crime 87

5 At the Margins: Criminalization in the LGBTQIA+ Communities 112

6 Gender-Based Online Victimization 134

7 "Boys Will Be Boys" and "Sugar and Spice": The Relationship between Gender and Victimization 158

8 The Victimization of Individuals Who Identify as LGBTQIA+ 181

9 Policing Crime: How Gender Influences Arrest Decisions and Court Cases 200

10 The Gendered Nature of Punishment 221

11 "Boys' Clubs": Gender and Employment in the Criminal-Legal System 240

12 Gender, Crime, and the Media 267

References 289

Index 313