Women, crime and social harm [ towards a criminology for the global age

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cain, Maureen E. [ (Maureen Elizabeth)] , 1938- (Author), Howe, Adrian (Author)
Corporate Author: Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, England ; Portland, Oregon : Hart , 2008
Series:Onati international series in law and society
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Criminogenesis and the war against drugs : (another) story of absented women
  • 2. Violence against women : rethinking the local-global nexus in feminist strategy
  • 3. Globalisation, human security, fundamentalism and women's rights : emergent contradictions
  • 4. The gender of borderpanic : women in circuits of security, state, globalisation and new (and old) empire
  • 5. Xeno-racism and the demonisation of refugees : a gendered perspective
  • 6. Dangerous Liaisons : sex work, globalisation, morality and the state in contemporary India
  • 7. Global rights, local harms : the case of the human rights of women in sub-Saharan Africa
  • 8. The globalisation of international human rights law, Aboriginal women and the practice of Aboriginal customary law
  • 9. Women and natural disasters : state crime and discourses in vulnerability
  • 10. Global feminist networks on domestic violence
  • 11. Local contexts and globalised knowledge : what can international criminal victimisation surveys tell us about women's diverse lives?