Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the Global Age (Series Published for the Onati Institute for the Sociology of Law)

235 Pages·2008·1.01 MB·English

by  Maureen Cain

WOMEN, CRIME AND SOCIAL HARM
This book is by and about women, the harms and crimes to which they
are subjected as a result of global social processes and their efforts to take
control of their own futures. It explores the criminogenic and damaging
consequences of the policies of global fi nancial institutions and the effects of
growing economic polarisation, both in pockets of the developed world and
in the global south. Refl ecting on this evidence, the editors challenge existing
criminological theory by expanding and elaborating a conception of social
harm that encompasses this range of problems, and exposes where new
solutions derived from criminological theory are necessary. A second theme
addresses human rights from the standpoint of indigenous women, minority
women and those seeking refuge. For most of these women a politics of
human rights emerges as central to achieving legal and political equality
and protection from individual violence. Women in the poorest countries,
however, are sceptical as to the effi cacy of rights claims in the face of the
depredations of international and global capital, and the social dislocation
produced thereby. Nonetheless this is a hopeful book, emphasising the
contribution which academic work can make, provided the methodology is
appropriately gendered and suffi ciently sensitive to hear and learn from the
all too often ‘glocalised’ other. But in the end there is no solution without
politics. What continues to be special about women’s political practice is the
connection between the groundedness of small groups and the fl uidity and
fl exibility of regional and international networks: the effective politics of the
global age. This book, then, is a new criminology for and by women, a book
which cannot easily be read without an emotional response.
Oñati International Series in Law and Society
A SERIES PUBLISHED FOR THE OÑATI INSTITUTE
FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
General Editors
Johannes Feest Judy Fudge
Founding Editors
William LF Felstiner Johannes Feest
Board of General Editors
Rosemary Hunter, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Carlos Lugo, Hostos Law School, Puerto Rico
David Nelken, Macerata University, Italy
Jacek Kurczewski, Warsaw University, Poland
Marie Claire Foblets, Leuven University, Belgium
Roderick Macdonald, McGill University, Canada
Titles in this Series
Social Dynamics of Crime and Control: New Theories for a World in
Transition edited by Susannah Karstedt and Kai Bussmann
Criminal Policy in Transition edited by Andrew Rutherford and
Penny Green
Making Law for Families edited by Mavis Maclean
Poverty and the Law edited by Peter Robson and Asbjørn Kjønstad
Adapting Legal Cultures edited by Johannes Feest and David Nelken
Rethinking Law Society and Governance: Foucault’s Bequest edited by
Gary Wickham and George Pavlich
Rules and Networks edited by Richard Appelbaum, Bill Felstiner and
Volkmar Gessner
Women in the World’s Legal Professions edited by Ulrike Schultz and
Gisela Shaw
Healing the Wounds edited by Marie-Claire Foblets and Trutz von Trotha
Imaginary Boundaries of Justice edited by Ronnie Lippens
Family Law and Family Values edited by Mavis Maclean
Contemporary Issues in the Semiotics of Law edited by Anne Wagner,
Tracey Summerfi eld and Farid Benavides Vanegas
The Geography of Law: Landscapes, Identity and Regulation
edited by Bill Taylor
Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research edited by Reza Banakar and
Max Travers
Luhmann on Law and Politics edited by Michael King
and Chris Thornhill
Precarious Work, Women and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal
Norms edited by Judy Fudge and Rosemary Owens
Juvenile Law Violators, Human Rights, and the Development of New
Juvenile Justice Systems edited by Eric L Jensen and Jørgen Jepsen
The Language Question in Europe and Diverse Societies: Political, Legal
and Social Perspectives edited by Dario Castiglione and Chris Longman
European Ways of Law: Towards A European Sociology of Law edited by
Volkmar Gessner and David Nelken
Crafting Transnational Policing: Police Capacity-Building and Global
Policing Reform edited by Andrew Goldsmith and James Sheptycki
Constitutional Politics in the Middle East: With special reference to
Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan edited by Saïd Amir Arjomand
Parenting after Partnering: Containing Confl ict after Separation
edited by Mavis Maclean
Responsible Business: Self-Governance and Law in Transnational
Economic Transactions edited by Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg
and Gerd Winter

Women, Crime and
Social Harm
Towards a Criminology for
the Global Age
Edited by
Maureen Cain
and
Adrian Howe
Oñati International Series in Law and Society
A SERIES PUBLISHED FOR THE OÑATI INSTITUTE
FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
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2008
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Acknowledgements
The editors wish to thank the Overseas Policy Committee of the British
Academy for a grant under their International Collaborative Programme
and also the International Institute of Sociology of Law (IISL), Oñati, Spain
for their fi nancial and administrative support. In addition we are grateful to
Mrs Alison Wagstaff for her tireless administrative work from the inception
of the proposal to the completion of the manuscript for this book.

Contents
Acknowledgements .................................................................................vii
List of Contributors .................................................................................xi
Introduction: Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a
Criminology for the Global Age ................................................................1
Maureen Cain and Adrian Howe
Part I Position Papers
1. Criminogenesis and the War Against Drugs: (Another) Story
of Absented Women ...........................................................................21
Maureen Cain
2. Violence Against Women: Rethinking the Local–Global Nexus
in Feminist Strategy ............................................................................37
Adrian Howe
3. Globalisation, Human Security, Fundamentalism and Women’s
Rights: Emergent Contradictions ........................................................57
Peggy Antrobus
Part II Women on the Move
4. The Gender of Borderpanic: Women in Circuits of Security,
State, Globalisation and New (and Old) Empire ................................69
Suvendrini Perera
5. Xeno-racism and the Demonisation of Refugees: A
Gendered Perspective .........................................................................95
Liz Fekete
6. Dangerous Liaisons: Sex Work, Globalisation, Morality
and the State in Contemporary India ...............................................107
Brinda Bose
Part III Human Rights − Limits and Possibilities
7. Global Rights, Local Harms: The Case of the Human Rights
of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa .....................................................123
Esther Kisaakye