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Violence by women is frequently sensationalised, abetting
misogynistic tropes that characterise violent women as ‘evil’,
‘unnatural’ and masculine. Favouring more complex analyses of
this behaviour, The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist
Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence highlights and
challenges normative accounts of women’s violence and offers new
multidimensional conceptualisations of these acts, furthering
understanding of this topic from a feminist perspective. Responding
to a growing research interest, contributors present a
comprehensive introduction to a wide range of international and
interdisciplinary scholarship on different aspects of women’s
violence. Drawing on both empirical and secondary data, chapters
incorporate familiar themes of intimate violence, homicide,
terrorism and combat as well as wider content such as women’s
involvement in violent nationalist movements and their role in
perpetrating obstetric harms. The only publication of its kind in
terms of its scope, interdisciplinarity and feminist perspective,
The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on
Women’s Acts of Violence breaks fresh ground by unveiling how
violence is understood and enabling new links and connections to be
made across previously disparate areas.
This distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative
criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression are lived,
portrayed and imagined. These include spaces of control or
confinement, including prison and borders, and spaces of
resistance. Examples range from camps where asylum seekers and
migrants are confined, to the exploration of deviant identities and
the imagined spaces of surveillance and control in young adult
fiction. Drawing on oral history, fictive portrayals, walking
methodologies, and ethnographic and arts-based research, the book
pays attention to issues of gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity,
mobility and nationality as they intersect with lived and imagined
space.
This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist
approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and
justice. It provides an overview and critical discussion of
contemporary issues and research in this area suitable for use in
undergraduate and postgraduate degree modules. A key feature of the
book is its use of films, television series and documentaries to
illustrate the concepts and findings from criminological research
on gender, crime and justice. After outlining the meaning of gender
and the perspective of intersectional feminism, it has chapters
focused on interpersonal and sexual violence, sex work and the
night-time economy, street crime, crimes of the powerful, policing
and the courts, prison and community penalties and a final chapter
on extreme punishment and abolitionist futures. It speaks to
students and academics in criminology, sociology and gender
studies.
Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At
this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the
death penalty had changed - it was an issue that had become
increasingly controversial, high-profile and fraught with emotion.
In order to understand why this was, it is necessary to examine how
ordinary people learned about and experienced capital punishment.
Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life
of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including
an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of
portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular
protest against capital punishment and public responses to and
understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in
relation to conceptualisations of justice. Miscarriages of justice
were significant to capital punishment's increasingly fraught
nature in the mid twentieth-century and the book analyses the
unsettling power of two such high profile miscarriages of justice.
The final chapters consider the continuing relevance of capital
punishment in Britain after abolition, including its symbolism and
how people negotiate memories of the death penalty. Capital
Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain is groundbreaking in its
attention to the death penalty and the effect it had on everyday
life and it is the only text on this era to place public and
popular discourses about, and reactions to, capital punishment at
the centre of the analysis. Interdisciplinary in focus and
methodology, it will appeal to historians, criminologists,
sociologists and socio-legal scholars.
This distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative
criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression are lived,
portrayed and imagined. These include spaces of control or
confinement, including prison and borders, and spaces of
resistance. Examples range from camps where asylum seekers and
migrants are confined, to the exploration of deviant identities and
the imagined spaces of surveillance and control in young adult
fiction. Drawing on oral history, fictive portrayals, walking
methodologies, and ethnographic and arts-based research, the book
pays attention to issues of gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity,
mobility and nationality as they intersect with lived and imagined
space.
Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At
this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the
death penalty had changed - it was an issue that had become
increasingly controversial, high-profile and fraught with emotion.
In order to understand why this was, it is necessary to examine how
ordinary people learned about and experienced capital punishment.
Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life
of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including
an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of
portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular
protest against capital punishment and public responses to and
understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in
relation to conceptualisations of justice. Miscarriages of justice
were significant to capital punishment's increasingly fraught
nature in the mid twentieth-century and the book analyses the
unsettling power of two such high profile miscarriages of justice.
The final chapters consider the continuing relevance of capital
punishment in Britain after abolition, including its symbolism and
how people negotiate memories of the death penalty. Capital
Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain is groundbreaking in its
attention to the death penalty and the effect it had on everyday
life and it is the only text on this era to place public and
popular discourses about, and reactions to, capital punishment at
the centre of the analysis. Interdisciplinary in focus and
methodology, it will appeal to historians, criminologists,
sociologists and socio-legal scholars.
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