Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens' pathways into crime, and examines the interplay between gender, class, rapid social changes and female law-breaking in neoliberal China.

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Teesside University, UK

Anqi Shen

About the author

Anqi Shen is a Lecturer in Law and Policing at Teesside University. She previously worked in China as a criminal justice professional and then a qualified lawyer in a Nanjing law firm.

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Book Title: Offending Women in Contemporary China
Book Subtitle: Gender and Pathways into Crime
Authors: Anqi Shen
Series Title: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137441447
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44143-0Published: 26 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44144-7Published: 26 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2946-2878
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2886
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 141
Topics: Crime and Society, Asian Culture, Sociology, general, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Gender Studies, Ethnicity Studies

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Offending Women in Contemporary China: An Introduction

Researching Chinese Female Offenders: The Methodology

Female Members of Black-Society Style Criminal Organisations

Female Offenders Who Organised Others for Prostitution

Female Child Traffickers

Conclusion

Back Matter

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