Book review: Gender and Crime: A Human Rights Approach
| Author | Geoff Coliandris |
| Published date | 01 June 2017 |
| Date | 01 June 2017 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X16682116 |
| Subject Matter | Book review |
Book review
Book review
Gender and Crime: A Human Rights Approach (2nd edn)
Marisa Silvestri and Chris Crowther-Dowey
SAGE Publications Ltd., London
Paperback ISBN 978-1-4739-0219-0
£27.99: 349 pp.
Reviewed by: Geoff Coliandris, Email: Geoff.coliandris@southwales.ac.uk
DOI: 10.1177/0032258X16682116
The first edition of Gender and Crime: A Human Rights Approach by Marisa Silvestri
and Chris Crowther-Dowey appeared in 2008. Since then there have been major devel-
opments in the public, practitioner, political and academic understandings of, and
approaches to, the subjects of crime, criminality, and criminal justice (CJ) and their
articulations with the question of gender. Such developments at the level of the state
and beyond need to be set within the context of globalisation and the shifting conditions,
challenges and opportunities it brings as far as new types of crime, criminality and CJ are
concerned. This second edition of Gender and Crime: A Human Rights Approach (2016)
seeks to build on the success of the first edition and to offer a critical introduction to the
field of gender and crime that reflects current developments and controversies while
drawing on the established literature. In doing so it offers a re-thinking of the key themes
and debates within a human rights approa ch which attempts to improve unde rstandings
of the reasons for, and consequences of, differential treatment and inequitable treat-
ment of men and women as offenders, victims and CJ workers. In claiming to be
significantly updated, the second edition includes new chapters relating criminological
theory to gender and crime, discussions on the history of gender and crime and refer-
ences to contemporary and emerging issues in gender and crime. In this latter respect,
the book explores how globalisation is associated with new forms of criminal and
deviant behaviours such as human trafficking, the criminalisation of (im)migration,
honour-based violence (or abuse as it is often now officially labelled), female genital
mutilation and online offending. The book also offers updated learning features,
including: Chapter Overviews; Key Words; Study Questions; Chapter Summaries; Key
Further Readings; and a comprehensive Glossary. It also gives a link to companion
website which offers a range of resources for this and other works. As part of the ‘Key
Approaches to Criminology’ series, Gender and Crime continues the theme of inter-
disciplinary working.
The Police Journal:
Theory, Practice and Principles
2017, Vol. 90(2) 189–191
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