Women, Crime and Criminal Justice

A Global Enquiry

Rosemary Barberet

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415856362
• eBook ISBN: 9781135005740
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

Women, Crime and Criminal Justice is the winner of the Division of International Criminology's Distinguished Book Award 2014 and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section's 2015 Outstanding Book Award and the first fully internationalised book to focus on women as offenders, victims and justice professionals. It provides background, as well as specialized information that allows readers to comprehend the global forces that shape women and crime; analyze different types of violence against women (in peacetime and in armed conflict); and grasp the challenges faced by women in justice professions such as the police, the judiciary and international peacekeeping.

Provocative, highly topical, engaging and written by an expert in the field, this book examines the role of women in crime and criminal justice internationally. Topics covered include:

• the role of globalization and development in patterns of female offending and victimization,
• how a human rights framework can help explain women´s crime, victimization and the criminal justice response,
• global women's activism,
• international perspectives on violence against women, including femicide, violence in conflict and post conflict settings, sex work and sex trafficking,
• women's access to justice, as well as the increased role of women in international criminal justice settings.

This book will be essential reading for those involved in the study of development, human rights, governance, security sector reform, international relations and public health, as debates about these subjects are intrinsically linked to the issues surrounding women, crime and justice. It will also be useful for students taking courses on gender, crime and criminal justice, violence against women, international criminal justice and gender studies.

Index

A page number followed by n and a number indicates that the information can be found within the specific numbered note.

abortion: debates about 58; forced 79; partner 80; sex-selective 8, 9, 79, 80, 83–5, 97n1

abuse: physical 81; psychological 80, 81; sexual 71, 79, 81; wife/widow 80, 81

acid attacks/burning 81, 91

activism: feminist 61–3, 193, 199, 213–14; related to women, crime and justice 67–9; transnational 63–4; see also activist organizations

activist organizations: peacebuilding 72–3; violence against women 71–2; watchdog 69–70; women prisoners/reentry 70–1

Adler, Freda 23

adultery 169

Afghanistan, imprisonment of women in 169, 170

Africa: mothers in prison in 168; women in prison in 161, 164, 165

agency of women 6, 9, 22, 41, 97, 108, 110–11, 120, 129, 130, 131, 140, 144, 145, 172, 176, 207, 210

Agirre Aranburu 108–0

Ahluwalia, Kiranjit 71

Ali, Nujood 90

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues (US State Department) 59

American Civil Liberties Union 173

Amnesty International 173

Andorra, women in prison in 161

anti-violence against women movement 3

apartheid 65

Arab-Israeli conflict 65

Armagh prison (Northern Ireland) 171–2

assault, sexual 40; see also rape; sexual violence

asylum seekers, pretrial detention of 163

Australia: women as peacekeepers from 199; women in prison in 160

Babies and Children Living in Prison 182–5

Bahrain, women in prison in 161

Bangkok Rules (UN) 60, 173–6

Bangladesh, all-women police units from 199

Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners 173

battering 80; see also domestic violence/domestic partner violence; intimate partner abuse

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 57, 66

Bell Bajao campaign 68

Benin, women in prison in 164

Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment 173

Bosnia, women as peacekeepers in 198

Botswana, women in prison in 164

Boyle, Elizabeth 88

Brazil: all-women police stations in 20...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Figures, tables and map
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• SECTION I Global forces
• SECTION II Violence against women
• SECTION III Justice for women
• Films
• Biographies
• Index