Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways Into Crime

ISBN-13: 9781137441430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 141 str.

Anqi Shen

Opis

Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime 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.

Spis treści

1. Offending Women in Contemporary China: An Introduction 2. Researching Chinese Female Offenders: The Methodology 3. Female Members of 'Black-Society Style' Criminal Organisations 4. Female Offenders Who Organised Others for Prostitution 5. Female Child Traffickers

O autorze

Anqi Shen is a Lecturer in Law and Policing at Teesside University. She previously worked in China as a criminal justice professional and then a qualified lawyer in a Nanjing law firm.