Feminist criminology through a biosocial lens /

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Author / Creator:Walsh, Anthony, 1941-
Imprint:Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011.
Description:xvii, 157 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8380218
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ISBN:9781594609664 (alk. paper)
1594609667 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Feminist criminology : perspective and concepts
  • The generalizability problem
  • The gender ratio problem and socialization
  • General feminist theories of criminal behavior
  • Social constructionism and social science's triad of "evils"
  • Social constuctionism and gender
  • Evolutionary approaches to gender
  • Evolutionary explanations for gender differences in criminality
  • From genes to gender : sexual differentiation of the brain
  • Sex/gender differences in brain structure and function
  • Gender differences in prosocial traits
  • Gender differences in major risk factors for criminality.