This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency. Contributions are organized into two main parts, with Part I dedicated to the relationship between women and crime, and Part II focused on female juvenile delinquency. Through the exploration of girls and womens relationships with delinquency and crime, as well as with the justice system, this original and compelling collection highlights the heterogeneity of girls and women's experiences, whilst also underlining the convergences and divergences between them.
Ultimately, Gomes and Duarte argue that understanding how women and girls explain their offending behaviours and how they relate to the criminal justice system is of the utmost importance for reforming social and legal policies. As such, this book will be of value not only for students, researchers and professionals of the social, behavioural and criminal sciences, but also for policy-makers seeking to provide greater efficiency in preventing crime and delinquency.
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1 An Introduction to Female Crime and Delinquency: Portugal in the World |
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Part I Crime and Women: Gender Bias, Crime Trajectories and the Prison System |
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2 The Criminal Act at the Core of the Nexus Security-Insecurity: A Tentative Approach to Female Crime |
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3 Stalking by Women: Another Side of Gender Violence |
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4 Onstage and Oft: The Shifting Relevance of Gender in Women's Prisons |
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57 | (18) |
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5 How Do Foreign Women End Up in Prison? An Intersectional Approach of Criminal Pathways |
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75 | (30) |
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6 "To Kill or to Be Killed": Narratives of Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence, Condemned for the Murder of Their Partners |
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105 | (18) |
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Part II Female Juvenile Delinquency: Victimizations, Delinquencies and the Juvenile Justice System |
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7 Heterosexual Dating Violence and Social Gender Relations: Voices of Young Portuguese Girls |
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8 Constructing Meaning About the Delinquency of Young Girls in Public-Housing Neighbourhoods |
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143 | (20) |
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Maria Joao Leote de Carvalho |
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9 Gender and Crime in the Life Pathways of Young Women Offenders: Contrasting the Narratives of Girls and Professionals |
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163 | (20) |
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10 Girls and Transgressive Paths: A Case Study of Portuguese Girls in the Juvenile Justice System |
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Sķlvia Gomes is a postdoctoral grantee in Sociology and Criminology at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), University of Minho, Portugal (in cooperation with Florida State University, USA, and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), and a guest assistant professor at the University Institute of Maia, Portugal.
Vera Duarte is an assistant professor at University Institute of Maia (ISMAI, Portugal); Executive Director of the Research Unit in Criminology and Behavioral Sciences (UICCC/ ISMAI), Portugal; and a researcher at Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), University of Minho, Portugal.
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