Description:
This collection draws from key frameworks of criminological thought, legal analysis and empirical evidence to critically examine the relationship between homicide, gender and responsibility. It considers lethal violence committed by the state, the corporation, in war and in custody alongside domestic murder to demonstrate the interconnections between them.
Review Quotes:
This collection of illuminating and provocative essays explicitly engages with the ways notions about gender and responsibility are deeply implicated in understandings of myriad forms of lethal violence, from the violence of individual actors to the violence of the state. Implicitly, these analyses also reveal how our understandings of lethal violence shape constructions of gender and criminal responsibility; and they require us to consider the violence of legal interpretation in both its productive and destructive forms. The international and interdisciplinary scope is impressive, informative, and imperative.
--Professor Rosemary Gartner, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto, Canada