This volume brings together 21 essays by criminal justice, criminology, sociology, ethnic studies, and women's studies scholars from Australia, Europe, India, North America, Brazil, and Israel, who discuss feminist criminology in the context of victimology, research, and methodologies and understandings of crime. They explore the origins of feminist criminology, including the nature of different feminist perspectives and their impact on criminology and victimology, the early history of feminist interventions in criminology in the UK and other Western countries, feminist approaches to victimology, feminist activism and scholarship in resisting and responding to gender-based abuse, and feminist criminology in the context of digital feminism, particularly the #MeToo movement. They also detail research beyond the global North, including gender violence law reform and feminist criminology in Brazil, critical ecofeminism in Spain, public attitudes towards rape and its victims in India, and violence against women in black and minority ethnic communities in the UK; how feminist thought has pushed the boundaries of criminological work in terms of masculinities and interpersonal violence, research and activism in sex work, understanding how violence and inequality are embedded within patriarchy, women's resistance and social change in Africa, the experience of the oppression and colonialism by children in Israel, and the impact of prison life sentences on men and women; and the future of the field, with discussion of an intersectional approach to punishment and incarceration of indigenous women and girls, the impact of technology on violence against women, sexual violence, and gender-based violence in the global South. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
