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For further coverage on some of the topics in this chapter see S. Walklate (2004) Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice (Cullompton, Devon: Willan). See also The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime (Phoenix, Ariz.: Onyx Press, 2000) edited by N. H. Rafter (which gives some cross-cultural information for students new to the subject area).

In relation to feminism and criminology, L. Gelsthorpe and A. Morris (eds), Feminist Perspectives in Criminology (Buckingham, Open University Press, 1990), and N. H. Rafter and F. M. Heidensohn (eds), International Feminist Perspectives in Criminology (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1995) cover the broad feminist critique of criminology and its theoretical parameters. F. Heidensohn (ed), Gender and Justice (Cullompton, Devon: Willan, 2006) is a recent collection of essays which reflect research and theory.

On feminist epistemology and methodology, see A. Oakley's Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Methods in the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Polity, 2000), and C. Ramazanoglu and J. Holland, Feminist Methodology. Challenges and Choices (London: Sage, 2002). The former challenges some of the precepts promoted by feminism in respect of quantitative methods; the latter guides the reader through the terrain of feminist methodology, providing examples of issues in fieldwork practice.

For further details on feminist theory see M. Eagleton's edited A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003). For gender theory (especially relating to masculinities), see R. Connell, Gender (Cambridge: Polity, 2002), T. Newburn and E. Stanko (eds), Just Boys Doing Business (London: Routledge, 1994) and R. Collier, Masculinities, Crime and Criminology (London: Sage, 1998).

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