Revised edition of Feminist criminology through a biosocial lens, 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Perspectives and concepts -- The generalizability problem -- The gender ratio problem and socialization -- General feminist theories of criminal behavior -- Social constructionism and social science's triad of "evils" -- Social constuctionism and gender -- Evolutionary approaches to gender -- Evolutionary explanations for gender differences in criminality -- Feminist and biosocial explanations of victimizing behavior : rape and intimate partner violence -- From genes to gender : sexual differentiation of the brain -- Sex/gender differences in brain structure and function -- Gender differences in prosocial traits -- Gender differences in antisocial traits -- General conclusion.
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