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Antifeminist backlash and critical criminology
No full textThe backlash against feminist criminology is intertwined with broader resistance to feminism\ud
and other progressive social movements. Carol Smart noted in 1979 that changes in\ud
women's social or economic status have long been perceived as threats to the patriarchal\ud
gender order and are therefore "viewed with considerable misgiving, whilst any reinforcement\ud
of the value of women's traditional, domestic role has been perceived as a stand against\ud
further social decline and disorder" (Smart, 1979, p. 50). The contemporary backlash exists\ud
at the nexus of economic and ideological retrenchment seeking to enforce the hegemony\ud
of neoliberal conceptions of justice as formal equality. Critical criminology is linked to the\ud
backlash against feminism in two key ways. First, critical criminology is an important location\ud
for the study of antifeminism and its implications. Second, criminologists who study\ud
women or gender have frequently been attacked by antifeminist scholars and commentators
Introduction to Volume II : The New Era—New Theoretical Directions in Critical Criminology
No full textGlobal Human Trafficking : Critical Issues and Contexts
No full textHuman trafficking has moved from relative obscurity to a major area of research, policy and teaching over the past ten years. Research has sprung from criminology, public policy, women’s and gender studies, sociology, anthropology, and law, but has been somewhat hindered by the failure of scholars to engage beyond their own disciplines and favoured methodologies. Recent research has begun to improve efforts to understand the causes of the problem, the experiences of victims, policy efforts, and their consequences in specific cultural and historical contexts.\ud
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Global Human Trafficking: Critical issues and contexts foregrounds recent empirical work on human trafficking from an interdisciplinary, critical perspective. The collection includes classroom-friendly features, such as introductory chapters that provide essential background for understanding the trafficking literature, textboxes explaining key concepts, discussion questions for each chapter, and lists of additional resources, including films, websites, and additional readings for each chapter.\ud
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The authors include both eminent and emerging scholars from around the world, drawn from law, anthropology, criminology, sociology, cultural studies, and political science and the book will be useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas, as well as for scholars interested in trafficking
Fathers' rights activism and law reform in comparative perspective, edited by R. Collier and S. Sheldon
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