Offending women in contemporary China: gender and pathways into crime
From the 1960s onwards, there has been an explosion of theory and research relating to gender, crime and justice in the West. However, very little is known about female criminality in contemporary China. Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, this book explores the so...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Online Access: |
Cover Table of Contents Volltext (doi) |
| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 7213 |
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| Summary: | From the 1960s onwards, there has been an explosion of theory and research relating to gender, crime and justice in the West. However, very little is known about female criminality in contemporary China. Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, this book explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens' pathways into crime, and examines the interplay between gender, class, rapid social changes and female law-breaking in neoliberal China |
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| Physical Description: | VII, 133 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9781137441430 |
| DOI: | 10.1067/9781137441447 |