Violence by women is frequently sensationalised, abetting misogynistic tropes that characterise violent women as evil … Perspectives on Women s Acts of Violence highlights and challenges normative accounts of women s violence and offers new … interdisciplinary scholarship on different aspects of women s violence. Drawing on both empirical and secondary data, chapters …

crime in specific groups including migrants, women and racial minorities, and finally turning from individual to organized …"A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars … and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable …

Technology, economic development, and the division of labour by sex / Pamela M. D'Onofrio-Flores -- Women and … technology in the industrialized countries / Maria Bergom-Larsson -- Women and technology in peripheral countries: an overview … / Zenebeworke Tadesse -- The impact of science and technology and the role of women in science in Mexico / Mangalam Srinivasan …