Feminist criminology through a biosocial lens /
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| Author / Creator: | Walsh, Anthony, 1941- |
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| 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 |
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.
