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Equality with a vengeance: Men’s rights groups, battered women, and antifeminist backlash
No full textThis book investigates efforts by fathers' rights groups to undermine battered women's shelters and services, in the context of the backlash against feminism. Dragiewicz examines the lawsuit Booth v. Hvass, in which fathers' rights groups attempted to use an Equal Protection claim to argue that funding emergency services that target battered women is discriminatory against men. As Dragiewicz shows, this case (which was eventually dismissed) is relevant to widespread efforts to promote a degendered understanding of violence against women in order to eradicate policies and programs that were designed to ameliorate harm to battered women. © 2011 Northeastern University. All rights reserved.No Full Tex
Critical criminology
No full textCritical Criminology is now a well-established—if heterogeneous and contentious—field of study. The work of critical criminologists supports numerous international journals, regional organizations, and global conferences. As the field continues to flourish as never before, this new title from Routledge, edited by two distinguished scholars, meets the need for an authoritative, one-stop reference work to make sense of the wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts that have informed Critical Criminology.
In four volumes, the collection assembles the best and most influential empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by critical criminologists from around the world, with special attention to new directions in the field—such as cultural criminology, masculinities studies, and feminist criminologies. The gathered works cover not only the history of Critical Criminology and cutting-edge theories, but also explore a variety of research methods used by leading scholars in the field and the rich data generated by their rigorous empirical work.
With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Critical Criminology is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as a database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar—and sometimes overlooked—texts. For researchers, students, and policy-makers, it is an essential one-stop research and pedagogic resource.No Full Tex
Patriarchy reasserted : fathers' rights and anti-VAWA activism
No full textThe backlash against gender-sensitive responses to women's victimization, offending, and imprisonment is inseparable from contemporary reaction against feminism and other progressive movements. The backlash against the American Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) provides a prime example of this resistance. Despite widespread support for VAWA and other policies designed to address violence against women, some constituencies object to their existence. The author investigates fathers' rights rhetoric on VAWA as an example of antifeminist backlash
Key issues in trafficking research
No full textSection II comprises the majority of this collection. It draws together new empirical work on trafficking issues from Mexico, the United States, Ukraine, Benin, South Africa, China, Israel, and Australia. This section covers various types of labor trafficking within and across borders. It includes trafficking for prostitution, commercial fi shing, and domestic service. The section also includes chapters on other types of trafficking, including marriage trafficking and the traffic in organs. Each of the chapters utilizes innovative methodological approaches to collecting and analyzing data on trafficking and the impact of trafficking policies. The chapters in this section provide information about the dynamics of trafficking even as they raise questions about the utility of existing interventions.No Full Tex
Fathers' rights activism and law reform in comparative perspective (Book review)
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Beyond critique
No full textSo, the increase in the scope of critical criminology, its intrusion across the borderline into other disciplines, brings with it real theoretical gains and insights. But there is much left to do: all that can be stressed is that it is within critical criminology that serious discussions of theory occur.No Full Tex
Unsolicited dick pics: Erotica, exhibitionism or entitlement?
No full textTechnologically mediated forms of sexual abuse have been the subject of extensive media discussion in the 2000s. Arguably, digital media have transformed sexual abuse. Cultural anxieties around sexting and revenge porn have been accompanied by an emerging body of scholarly literature on image-based sexual abuse and harassment. Concern with image-based sexual abuse has centered on the non-consensual distribution of private nude images of women and girls via digital media, which is often represented as harmful, dangerous for the woman or girl in the image, and potentially criminal. Conversely, scholars have just begun to turn their attention to men's intentional distribution of unsolicited images of their penises to women. In this article, we consider the theoretical concepts of the continuum of sexual violence and sexual and aggrieved entitlement alongside the interdisciplinary literature on image-based sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and exhibitionism to propose a future research agenda for understanding the contemporary phenomenon of men sending unsolicited dick pics to women. We argue that dick pics merit scholarly attention as an emerging cultural practice.No Full Tex
Policy issues
No full textWe need … to develop ways of fostering a criminology that is more than a relatively passive witness to the destruction wrought by contemporary global forces - much less an accomplice - and instead vigorously steps up to take on the job of combating those forces and dedicating itself unapologetically to the reduction of needless pain, fear, and injustice around the world. That is the kind of criminology I want to be doing for as long as I’m capable of doing it. And the more people who join me, the happier I will be.No Full Tex
Book Review: It's My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence
No full textIt’s My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence is a wonderful resource for survivors of violence, their friends and supportive family members, and those who work with them. Meg Kennedy Dugan is director of counseling services at New England College in New Hampshire. Roger R. Hock is a professor of psychology and human sexuality at Mendocino College in California. Their combined experience informs this book that guides survivors of domestic violence through the process of healing, rebuilding their lives, and regaining self-esteem. The book is explicitly written for women who are survivors of domestic violence or abuse by men and as such is able to address the many gender-specific aspects of abuse and its aftermath.No Full Tex
Blind to Betrayal: Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren’t Being Fooled (Book review)
No full textAs the previous two Thoughts about Books columns (March/April and July/August 2013) have demonstrated, criminology has been enriched by attention to the intersecting contexts that engender violence and abuse. Recent scholarship extends our understanding of the importance of contextual factors beyond variables like the relationship between victim and perpetrator, their demographic characteristics, and number of selected behaviors. In order to understand the etiology of violence and abuse, it is necessary to broaden our perspective beyond descriptions of the prevalence of specific acts and the social construction of deviance. Accordingly, psychological aspects of abuse and their relationship to interpersonal and structural factors are rich veins of inquiry for criminology.Full Tex
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