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1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Oñati international series in law and society
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Oñati international series in law and society.
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| Note |
"A series published for the Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Criminogenesis and the war against drugs : (another) story of absented women / Maureen Cain -- Violence against women : rethinking the local-global nexus in feminist strategy / Adrian Howe -- Globalisation, human security, fundamentalism and women's rights : emergent contradictions / Peggy Antrobus -- Gender of borderpanic : women in circuits of security, state, globalisation and new (and old) empire / Suvendrini Perera -- Xeno-racism and the demonisation of refugees : a gendered perspective / Liz Fekete -- Dangerous Liaisons : sex work, globalisation, morality and the state in contemporary India / Brinda Bose -- Global rights, local harms : the case of the human rights of women in sub-Saharan Africa / Esther Kisaakye -- Globalisation of international human rights law, Aboriginal women and the practice of Aboriginal customary law / Megan Davis -- Women and natural disasters : state crime and discourses in vulnerability / Penny Green -- Global feminist networks on domestic violence / Rhoda Reddock -- Local contexts and globalised knowledge : what can international criminal victimisation surveys tell us about women's diverse lives? / Sandra Walklate. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
This book of eleven chapters and an Introduction is by and about women, the harms and crimes to which they are subjected as a result of global social processes and their efforts to take control of their own futures. The chapters explore the criminogenic and damaging consequences of the policies of the global financial institutions as well as the effects of growing economic polarisation both in pockets of the developed world and most markedly in the global south. Reflecting on this evidence, in the Introduction the editors necessarily challenge existing criminological theory by expanding and el. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Crimes against.
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Women -- Crimes against. |
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Feminist criminology.
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Feminist criminology. |
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Crime and globalization.
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Crime and globalization. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Cain, Maureen E. (Maureen Elizabeth), 1938-
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Howe, Adrian.
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Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women, crime and social harm. Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2008 9781841138428 1841138428 (DLC) 2009275225 (OCoLC)258097389 |
| ISBN |
9781847314703 (electronic book) |
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1847314708 (electronic book) |
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9781841138428 (hardback) |
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1841138428 (hardback) |
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184113841X (paperback) |
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9781841138411 (paperback) |
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