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Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the Global Age. By Maureen Cain and Adrian Howe, eds. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2008. Pp. 234. $90.00 cloth.
This thought-provoking collection consists of 11 contributions by invited scholars and activists who presented at the 2003 Oñati Institute workshop on "Women, Crime and Globalization." The book provides a critical exploration of various expressions of women's victimization in the context of globalization, setting the stage for an emergent feminist global criminology. The contributors, most of whom have their academic homes in law or social sciences, focus on both legally recognized injuries (such as rape, domestic violence, theft) and those that are not legally sanctioned as yet. Some of the injuries examined are apparent and familiar, while others are subtle or have not been discussed in the context of globalization. The authors shed light on harms that result from actions of nationstates, multinational corporations, and international organizations and agencies. They also describe how the harms are shaped by the intersectionality of gender with race, marital status, immigration or refugee statuses, health conditions, poverty, and various social, economic and political contingencies in ways that have been historically overlooked. Thus the works detail women's unique harsh experiences as refugees, immigrants, trafficked persons, battered intimate partners, or victims of natural disasters in...