Australia has shown similar numbers, with women as 75 percent of intimate partner deaths, and prior violence identified in 44 percent of cases (Cussen and Bryant 2015). Intimate partner homicide is the most common category of homicides ...
The main objective of the second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology is twofold: (1) to provide original chapters that cover contemporary critical criminological theoretical offerings generated over the past five years ...
A provocative investigation of how fathers' rights groups are trying to erode the gains of the battered women's movement
The French connection in criminology: Rediscovering crime, law, and social change. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Balbus, I. D. (1977). Commodity form and legal form: An essay on the “relative autonomy” of the law. Law & Society Review, 11(3), ...
Designed for students, researchers and policymakers, this handbook highlights new theoretical directions within the context of international multidisciplinary critical research, namely southern criminology, queer criminology, and green ...
The collection includes classroom-friendly features, such as introductory chapters that provide essential background for understanding the trafficking literature, textboxes explaining key concepts, discussion questions for each chapter, and ...
risk factor for violence against women generally (Macmillan and Kruttschnitt 2005), and individuals in rural places are less likely to earn a college degree because of the lower socioeconomic status that characterizes rural areas (Byun, ...
In T. Fleming (Ed.), The new criminologies in Canada: State, crime, and control (pp. 5–12). Toronto: Oxford University Press. ... Commodifying Canadian criminology: Applied criminology programs and the future of the discipline.
Written in a highly readable fashion, this book will be a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy makers.
'Critical Criminology' is now a well-established - if heterogeneous and contentious - field of study.