Women and Criminal Justice in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9783032108821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2026

Opis

This book explores narratives and practices around gender and criminal justice, with a focus on women in Latin America. The chapters are written by academics, policy-making institutions, women with lived experience and activist actors in Latin America. They provide a distinctive analysis of gender and criminal justice in the region, along with the tensions between victimization and agency in women s paths of criminalization. This book looks at women s resistance and responses to States processes of gender stereotyping and punishment. Ultimately, it showcases women s collective capacity to shape the security agenda.