13. Confronting Woman Abuse in Canada: A Left-Realist Approach

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: The Criminology That Came in Out of the Cold ix
4. Preface xiii
5. 1. Introduction: Left Realism, Crime Control, and Policing in the l 990s 1
6. Part One: The Case for Left Realism
7. 2. Realist Research as a Basis for Local Criminal Justice Policy 33
8. 3. Developing a Realist Approach to Penal Reform 73
9. 4. Retreatism, Minimalism, Realism: Three Styles of Reasoning on Crime and Drugs in the United States 88
10. Part Two: A Critical Assessment of Left Realism
11. 5. Canadian Realist Criminology in the 1990s: Some Reflections on the Quest for Social Justice 101
12. 6. Crime and Justice in Socialist Cuba: What Can Left Realists Learn? 115
13. 7. Beyond Realist Criminology 139
14. 8. The 'Left Regulation' of Prostitution: Reconciling Individual Rights and Collective Interests 157
15. 9. Why Company Law Is Important to Left Realists 177
16. Part Three: Left Realism and Feminism
17. 10. Women, Crime, Feminism, and Realism 203
18. 11. Feminism and Realism in the Canadian Context 221
19. 12. Counting What Counts: The Study of Women's Fear of Crime 246
20. 13. Confronting Woman Abuse in Canada: A Left-Realist Approach 264
21. Part Four: Left Realism and Victimology
22. 14. Researching Victims of Crime: Critical Victimology 285
23. 15. The Local Crime Survey: Pitfalls and Possibilities 303
24. 16. The Contribution of 'Left Realism' to the Study of Commercial Crime 313
25. 17. A Program of Local Crime Survey Research for Canada 336
26. Contributors 367