Subjects:

Criminology

Contents:

1. Introduction Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Pat O'Malley

2. Risk, justice and diversity. Barbara Hudson

3. Risk and victimization. Sandra Walklate

4. Maculinities, edgework and risk taking. Steve Lyng

5. Risk and gendered identities Mariana Valverde

6. Barebacking, risk, and the productivity of prohibition Kane Race

7. (Re)mapping the family in the context of predictive genetic testing for hereditary breast cancer risk: Gendered responsibilities in the age of genetic risk. Jessica Polzer

8. Genetics and risk in prenatal diagnosis Silja Samerski

9. Risk, gender and genomics. Roxanne Mykitiuk

10. Gendered risk assessment practices and pension investment decision-making Mary Condon

11. Getting mad wi it: risk-seeking by young women Susan Batchelor

12. Risky relations: Criminogenic factors and female prisoners Kelly Hannah-Moffat

Edited and contributed to by a collection of eminent international scholars in the field, this is the first book to explore the gendered aspects of risk. It analyzes what is currently known and identifies some of the new directions and challenges for research and theory that emerge from thinking of risk as a governmental technique; as a form of consciousness and action and as a political issue, shaped by, and shaping gender in contemporary society.