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Bias in the Law addresses racial bias across the full roster of criminal justice actors--from legislators to community members to police officers, from prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys to judges and jurors. The result is a key entry into understanding bias in the law, how such bias impacts outcomes, and what can be done.

This book provides a focused and critical international overview of the intersections between race, crime perpetration and victimisation, and criminal justice policy and practice responses to crime perpetration and crime victimisation --Provided by publisher.

This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimisation. Covering theory, policy and practice, this new edition has been fully revised to reflect the wider changes, development and influence of gendered thinking in these areas. It brings together a range of key issues, including:Gender and victimisation, Gendered perspectives in law and criminal justice policy. Male dominance in the criminal justice system, New to the third edition is increased coverage of gender and crime in international perspective, particularly within the global south, and emerging concepts of risk and security. This is essential reading for advanced courses on gender and crime, women and crime, and feminist criminology. Sexual and domestic violence, Theories and concepts in feminist criminology.