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WOMEN, CRIME AND JUSTICE IN
CONTEXT
This book presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal
justice.ItdrawstogetherkeyresearchersfromAustraliaandAotearoaNewZealand
to offer a context-specific textbook that covers all of the major debates in the dis-
cipline in an accessible way.
This book examines both the foundational texts and cutting-edge contributions
to the topic and acknowledges the unique challenges and debates in the local
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand context. Written as an entry-level text, it
introduces undergraduate students to key theories, research and and debates on the
topics of offending, victimisation and the criminal justice system. It explores key
topics in feminist criminology with chapters exploring sex work, prison abolition-
ism, community punishment, media representations of crime and victims, and the
impacts of digital technology on gendered violence. Centring on an intersectional
approach, the book includes chapters that focus on disability, queer criminology,
Indigenous perspectives, migration and service-user perspectives. The book con-
cludes by exploring future directions in feminist approaches to crime and justice.
This textbook will be essential reading for undergraduates and researchers
studying feminist criminology, gender and crime, queer criminology, sociolegal
studies, intersectionality, sociology and criminal justice.
Anita Gibbs is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of
Otago, New Zealand.
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Gender
Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
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FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY
This series is a natural home for Criminology research with a Feminist Studies
focus. Bringing together original, innovative and topical books that showcase cut-
ting edge theory and empirical research, it is a focal point around which the field
can continue to develop and flourish. The series is broad in scope, in recognition
of the diverse nature of research that is undertaken relating to Feminist Studies,
Crime and Criminal justice.
Gender, Homicide and the Politics of Responsibility
Ashlee Gore
Women, Crime and Justice in Context: Contemporary Perspectives in
Feminist Criminology from Australia and New Zealand
Edited by: Anita Gibbs and Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour
The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities:
Shut Out, Shut In
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WOMEN, CRIME AND
JUSTICE IN CONTEXT
Contemporary Perspectives in
Feminist Criminology from Australia
and New Zealand
Edited by Anita Gibbs and Fairleigh Evelyn
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CONTENTS
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour and Anita Gibbs
2 Feminist criminology 13
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour
3 Gender and victimology: A necessary pairing 27
Jan Jordan
4 Gender, criminal law and violence against women: Mapping the
limits of legal interventions and approaches to reform 44
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
5 Women in the criminal justice system 57
Kate Seymour
6 Sex work, feminism and the legal system: Aotearoa in a global
context 73
Lynzi Armstrong
7 Women, crime and the media 87
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour
8 Violence against women in true crime podcasts: Beyond
representation and on to justice in the late-modern landscape 102
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vi Contents
Laura Vitis
9 Restorative justice in the context of gender-based violence and
harm 119
Andrea Pa˘ro¸sanu
10 Punishment in the community: Community sentences and
gender 134
Anita Gibbs
11 Post-prison experiences and women 150
Kirsten Gibson
12 Women, incarceration and settler colonial control 165
Tracey McIntosh
13 Queer criminology 180
Angela Dwyer
14 Women and girls with neurodisabilities and mental health issues
in the criminal justice system 194
Anita Gibbs
15 “Nothing about us, without us”: Centring the voices of
criminalised women 210
Debbie Kilroy and Suzi Quixley
16 Women and crimmigration 224
Brandy Cochrane
17 Feminist prison abolitionism 239
Ti Lamusse
18 Conclusions 253
Anita Gibbs and Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour
Index 260
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CONTRIBUTORS
Lynzi Armstrong is a senior lecturer in criminology at Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand. For more than a decade, her research has been focused
on the impacts of sex work laws on sex workers’ rights and safety. Her recent
projects have focused on the experiences of street-based sex workers, the impacts
of Section 19 of the Prostitution Reform Act, and on stigma and discrimination
relating to sex work in the context of diverse legislative frameworks.
BrandyCochraneisalecturerandresearcherincriminologyatVictoriaUniversity,
Australia. Brandy’s current research focuses on border securitisation and the refugee
and asylum-seeking community in Australia. Research and teaching interests include
gender, migration, security, methods, crimes of the powerful, critical and queer
studies.BrandyreceivedaPhDfromMonashUniversityin2017andanMSfrom
PortlandStateUniversityin2012.
Angela Dwyer is an associate professor in policing and emergency management in
the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia, and the deputy
director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. Angela conducts
research on the intersection between sexuality, gender diversity and criminal justice,
and is lead editor of Queering Criminology, edited with Matthew Ball and Thomas
Crofts, and published by Palgrave. Angela is the co-chair of the Division of Queer
CriminologywiththeAmericanSocietyofCriminology,andthesecretaryofEquality
Tasmania, an advocacy body working to change legislation to further protect
LGBTIQTasmanians.
Kate Fitz-Gibbon is an associate professor of criminology and director of the
Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre in the Faculty of Arts at
Monash University, Australia. Kate conducts research in the fields of family
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violence, femicide, criminal justice responses to family violence, and the impact of
criminal law reform in Australia and internationally. Kate has advised on homicide
law reform and family violence reviews in several Australian and international
jurisdictions.
Anita Gibbs teaches social work, sociology and criminology at the University of
Otago, New Zealand. Her research interests span 25 years in criminal justice,
mental health and social work, specialising more recently in fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder (FASD). She is a disability advocate working alongside caregivers and
individuals to promote positive supports for those living with FASD and other
neurodiversities. In 2020, she was awarded the Critic and Conscience of Society
Award by the GAMA Foundation and Universities New Zealand for her work
raising awareness of the issue of FASD as a hidden disability.
Kirsten Gibson is a Victoria University of Wellington graduate, where she
completed an MA looking at women’s access to needle exchange services. She is
currently a PhD candidate at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her
research focuses on the experiences of women after release from prison in
Aotearoa New Zealand. She became interested in post-prison experiences after
supporting a friend through release from prison. Kirsten is passionate about
research, as well as activism in issues around the harms of criminalisation.
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour teaches both criminology and gender studies at the
UniversityofOtago,NewZealand.Herresearchareasinclude:sexworkgovernance,
witharecentfocusontheexperiencesoftransandnon-binarysexworkersinAustralia
andAotearoaNewZealand;mediarepresentationsofcrimeandtheimpactoftheshift
tonew/digitalmedia;andpedagogicalapproachesincarceralsettings.
Jan Jordan is an adjunct professor in criminology at Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand, where, until recently, she had been researching and
teaching for 33 years. She has specialisedin rape research, authoringmany reports
as well as books. A primary focus has been on listening to the voices of women
victimised by rape, important in its own right as well as providing information
essential for those wishing to provide victim-centred responses. Jan is currently
completing two books to be published by Routledge, one focused on rape and the
criminal justice system and the other examining the wider social and patriarchal
contexts informing contemporary rape culture.
Debbie Kilroy was first imprisoned at age 14 and spent the subsequent 20 years
moving in and out of adult and children’s prisons in Queensland, Australia. In
1989, Debbie was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for drug trafficking. After
her release from prison in 1992, she established Sisters Inside, which advocates for
thehumanrightsofwomenandgirlsaffectedbythecriminallegalsystem.In2007,
Debbie was the first person in Australia with serious convictions to be admitted by
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the Supreme Court of Queensland to practise law. She is also a qualified social
worker, gestalt therapist and forensic mental health practitioner. Debbie continues
to lead Sisters Inside as CEO.
Ti Lamusse, of English–South African and Mauritian decent, is a lecturer in
Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington. Ti’s research is about what
Aotearoa could look like without prisons. Ti has a long history of queer and
prison activism, co-founding the queer and trans prison abolitionist organisation
No Pride in Prisons. Ti is currently the national secretary of People Against
Prisons Aotearoa. Ti sees scholarship as needing to be intimately tied to activist
work, arguingthatyoucannotsimplyunderstand theworld, butyoualsohave to
change it.
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Tracey McIntosh, MNZM, is Ngai Tuhoe, and is professor of Indigenous studies
andco-headofTeW-anangaoWaipapa(SchoolofMa-oriStudiesandPacificStudies)
at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her recent research examines the
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incarceration of Maori and Indigenous peoples, and particularly the experiences of
women, in terms of poverty, inequality and social justice. Her writing includes
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examination of the incarceration of Maori people, the links between impri-
sonment and poverty, and the histories of confinement and marginalisation in a
settler colonial state.
Andrea Pa˘ros¸anu is a research fellow with the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative
Justice, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has a legal back-
ground and holds a PhD from the University of Greifswald, Germany. Her research
interests focus on restorative justice, particularly within the contexts of youth justice,
family violence and elder harm, as well as alternatives to imprisonment. In New
Zealand,shehasbeeninvolvedintheevaluationofprojectsontheuseofrestorative
approaches in different settings. Prior to joining the Chair, she contributed to
research on restorative and youth justice in several comparative projects funded by
the European Union.
SuziQuixleyhasbeenanactivist,academic,practitionerandconsultant,specialising
in work with community-driven social justice organisations throughout Australia
over the past 35 years. She met Debbie Kilroy shortly after her release from prison
and hasperiodically workedwithSistersInsideeversince.Suzi facilitatedthe process
that developed Sisters Inside’s values and vision, documented the organisation’s
model of service, and continues to contribute, mainly through submission writing
and staff development.
Kate Seymour is a senior lecturer, currently in social work at Flinders University,
Australia, and previously in criminology. Kate’s research focus on gender, mascu-
linities and violence spans the fields of social work and criminology. She is espe-
cially interested in the ways that violence is framed in the policy, prevention and
