Gender, Crime and Justice

Lizzie Seal is Professor of Criminology at University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill (2010) and Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory (2014) and co-author with Maggie O’Neill of Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture (2012) and Imaginative Criminology (2019).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Interpersonal Violence.-3. Sexual Violence.- 4. Sex Work and the Night-time Economy.- 5. Street Crime, Gangs and Drugs.- 6. Crimes of the Powerful.- 7. Policing and the Courts.- 8. Prison and Community Penalties.- 9. Extreme Punishment and Abolitionist Futures.