Gender and Justice

by Heidensohn; Frances

• ISBN13: 9781843921998
• ISBN10: 1843921995
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-03-14
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

Questions about gender, justice and crime are constantly in the public arena, whether they focus on young women getting drunk or taking drugs, or the rising numbers of women going to prison or committing violent crimes - or reports of macho behaviour on the part of men in the military, law enforcement or professional sport. This book provides a key text for students seeking to understand feminist and gendered perspectives on criminology and criminal justice, bringing together the most innovative research and work which has taken the study of the relationship between gender and justice into the twenty-first century. The book addresses many of the issues of concern to the established feminist agenda (such as the gender gap, equity in the criminal justice system, penal regimes and their impact on women), but also shows the ways in which these themes have been extended, reinterpreted and answered in new and distinctive ways.Organised into sections on gender and offending behaviour, gender and the criminal justice system, and new concepts and approaches, Gender and Justice: new concepts and approaches will be essential reading for students taking courses in criminology and criminal justice, and anybody else wishing to understand the complex and changing relationship between gender and justice.

Table of Contents

Context, Theory and History

Introduction

An Introduction to the theoretical approaches and research traditions

Mental health and moral panic: drug discourses in history

Considering the 'Normalisation Thesis'

Introduction: an overview of the normalisation debate

Definitely, maybe not?

The normalisation of recreational drug use amongst young people

The normalisation of 'sensible' recreational drug use: further evidence from the North West

Longitudinal Study

Representing Drugs in and as Popular Culture

Introduction

Drugs and popular music in the modern age

Drugs, the family and recent American cinema

Under a cloud: morality, ambivalence and uncertainty in news discourse of cannabis law reform in Great Britain Simon Cross

The symbolic framing of drug use in the news: ecstacy and volatile substance abuse in newspapers

Drug dealers as folk heroes?

Drugs and television situation comedy

Junk, skunk and northern lights - representing drugs in children's literature

Identities, Cultural Practices and Drugs

Introduction

Echoes of drug culture in urban music

Drugs and identity: being a junkie mum

Goode Women, drugs and popular culture: is there a need for a feminist embodiment perspective?

The drugs of labour: the contested nature of popular drug use in child birth

Drugs, Normalisation and Popular Culture: Implications and Policy

Introduction Paul Manning

Systemic 'normalisation'? - mapping and interpreting policy sresponses to illicit drug use

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