Women, Crime and Social Harm : Towards a Criminology for the Global Age.

Prelims -- Contents -- Introduction Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the Global Age -- Part I Position Papers -- 1 Criminogenesis and the War Against Drugs: (Another) Story of Absented Women -- 2 Violence Against Women: Rethinking the Local-Global Nexus in Feminist Strategy -- Part II Women on the Move -- 4 The Gender of Borderpanic:Women in Circuits of Security, State, Globalisation and New (and Old) Empire -- 5 Xeno-racism and the Demonisation of Refugees: A Gendered Perspective -- 6 Dangerous Liaisons: Sex Work, Globalisation, Morality and the State in Contemporary India -- Part III Human Rights − Limits and Possibilities -- 7 Global Rights, Local Harms: The Case of the Human Rights of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 8 The Globalisation of International Human Rights Law, Aboriginal Women and the Practice of Aboriginal Customary Law -- Part IV Rethinking Social Harm in a Global Context -- 9 Women and Natural Disasters: State Crime and Discourses in Vulnerability -- 10 Global Feminist Networks on Domestic Violence -- 11 Local Contexts and Globalised Knowledges: What Can International Criminal Victimisation Surveys Tell Us About Women's Diverse Lives? -- Index.

This book is about the harms and crimes women are subjected to as a result of global social processes, and their efforts to control their futures.

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