Sex and Crime

A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. To explain how sex and crime is composed by, and composes, our understanding of these issues, this book:

• Draws on the authors’ research expertise, insightful case studies, and leading scholarship from across the globe.
• Develops students’ capacity to engage thoughtfully with diverse problems and to think critically, this is achieved with the help of creative learning exercises, empathetic questioning, and relevant illustrative examples.
• Encourages readers to be reflexive, open-spirited, and curious about how issues of sex and crime touch their lives and those of people around them.

Dr Alexandra Fanghanel is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Greenwich. Alexandra researches fear of crime, security, sexuality, and sexual practice in public space and uses queer, feminist, post-structuralist, and anti-colonialist approaches to analyse power and to strive for social justice. Alexandra views education as a tool through which to become free and to begin to undo the injustice of the world; that is why she is committed to radical, critical pedagogy. Dr Emma Milne is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Plymouth. Emma is an activist for women’s rights, specifically reproductive rights and justice. Emma′s research and teaching is interdisciplinary, focused on criminal law and criminal justice responses to women who are deemed to be criminal or deviant, specifically those suspected of newborn child killing and foetal harm. The wider context of Emma′s work is social, cultural, and legal controls and regulations of all women, notably in relation to motherhood, pregnancy, sex and reproduction. Emma co-edited Women and the Criminal Justice System: Failing Victims and Offenders? (Palgrave, 2018), and her research is informed by and uses feminism, intersectionality, and post-structuralism. Emma′s approach to law and legal research is from Feminist Legal Theory and Critical Legal Studies perspectives. Dr Giulia Federica Zampini is a Senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich. Giulia′s formal academic studies span across history, politics, social policy and socio-legal studies, but she is also interested in anthropology, ethics, and moral psychology. Giulia is attracted to a variety of theoretical and epistemological positions, including – but not limited to – feminism standpoint theory, critical theory, and critical realism. Giulia′s research interests centre around evidence and policy; drugs, prostitution, morality, harm reduction, decriminalisation, and prison education. Giulia is dedicated to research, activism, and advocacy for harm reduction across drug policy and prostitution policy and committed to enabling platforms for marginalised communities and knowledges, including people who use drugs and people who are incarcerated. Her current ongoing project, People and Dancefloors: narratives of drug-taking, involves team-based participatory action research through film. Dr Stacy Banwell is Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich, and Programme Leader of MSc Criminology, Gender, and Sexualities, University of Greenwich. Stacy′s background is in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and her current research interests are:  - Gender and the violence(s) of war armed conflict, including the relationship between war/armed conflict and climate insecurity. - Gender and economic foreign policy, specifically US foreign policy on abortion. Stacy is currently reviewing the impact of President Trumps revised global gag rule (GGR) and the defunding of UNFPA in humanitarian and war-affected settings. These topics are addressed in Stacy′s monograph Gender and the Violence(s) of war and armed conflict: More dangerous to be a woman? (2020). This work draws on Critical, Feminist and Visual Criminology; International Relations, Security Studies (including environmental security), Post-colonial Studies and Gender Studies. Stacy′s research practice is informed by feminist standpoint theory (which she applies to both human and non-human animals) and participatory action research. Dr Michael Fiddler is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich. Michael′s research has explored prison architecture, as well as the ways in which the ‘gothic’ and ‘uncanny’ can be applied to representations of imprisonment and violence. Michael′s urrent project is focused upon ‘Ghost Criminology’ and unpacking the ways in which the conceptual metaphors of haunting and spectrality can be applied to crime and punishment.