Gendering Criminology

Shelly Clevenger is Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Victim Studies at Sam Houston State University. With Jordana Navarro, she previously coauthored and coedited The Intersection between Intimate Partner Abuse, Technology, and Cybercrime: Examining the Virtual Enemy, Understanding Victimology: An Active-Learning Approach, and Teaching Criminological Theory.    Jordana N. Navarro is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at The Citadel. Previously she was Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Criminal Justice Concentration at Tennessee Technological University. With Shelly Clevenger, she has authored multiple books and peer-reviewed articles on cybercrime, intimate partner abuse, and sexual violence. Both authors have also presented their research to the US Congress.

CONTENTS

Preface: New Language for a New Way of Thinking

1. The Story of Gender: Definitions, Origins, and Current Issues
2. The Why and How: Theories of Gender, Crime, and Victimization
3. “Manly” Crimes: The Relationship between Masculinity and Criminality
4. “Ladies Only”: An Examination of Women and Crime
5. At the Margins: Criminalization in the LGBTQIA+ Communities
6. Gender-Based Online Victimization
7. “Boys Will Be Boys” and “Sugar and Spice”: The Relationship between Gender and 
    Victimization
8. The Victimization of Individuals Who Identify as LGBTQIA+
9. Policing Crime: How Gender Influences Arrest Decisions and Court Cases
10. The Gendered Nature of Punishment
11. “Boys’ Clubs”: Gender and Employment in the Criminal-Legal System
12. Gender, Crime, and the Media

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Index