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1|Acknowledgements|5
1|Contents|6
1|Notes on Contributors|8
1|List of Figures|12
1|List of Tables|13
1|1: An Introduction to Female Crime and Delinquency: Portugal in the World|14
2|1 Introduction|14
2|2 Why Do We Need To Talk About Portugal?|16
2|3 Gender Differences in and Out of the Criminal Justice System|18
2|4 Intersectional and Multidisciplinary Approaches: The Book|24
2|References|28
1|Part I: Crime and Women: Gender Bias, Crime Trajectories and the Prison System|36
2|2: The Criminal Act at the Core of the Nexus Security–Insecurity: A Tentative Approach to Female Crime|37
3|1 Ana, Mariana, Camila: Three Different Persons, Three Different Crimes—The Same Insecurity?|41
3|2 Pre-Penitentiary Institutions, or the Paradoxes of the Welfare State|45
3|References|50
2|3: Stalking by Women: Another Side of Gender Violence|53
3|1 Stalking as Gender Violence|53
3|2 Implications of a Gender Perspective on Stalking|56
3|3 Stalking Perpetrated by Women|58
3|4 An Important Minority of Women Stalkers|60
3|References|63
2|4: Onstage and Off: The Shifting Relevance of Gender in Women’s Prisons|68
3|1 Introduction|68
3|2 A Changing Prison Landscape|71
3|3 Gendered Regimes|73
3|4 Doing and Undoing Gender|75
3|5 Final Remarks|78
3|References|82
2|5: How Do Foreign Women End Up in Prison? An Intersectional Approach of Criminal Pathways|86
3|1 Introduction|86
3|2 Articulations Between Crime and Nationality|88
3|3 Gender and Intersectional Approaches in Crime and Justice Studies|90
3|4 Understanding Life Trajectories: Analytical and Methodological Options|93
3|5 Interviewee Selection: Identifying the Prisoners|95
3|6 Pre-Prison Contexts: Objective Living Conditions Narrated|96
4|6.1 Trajectories of Deprivation and Compliance of the PALOP Women|97
4|6.2 Trajectories of Deprivation and Violence Among the Eastern European Women|101
3|7 The Criminal Act: Reasons for Crime and Imprisonment|104
4|7.1 Economic Deprivation and Biased Justice in the Explanation of PALOP Women’s Imprisonment|104
4|7.2 Economic Factors and Drug Addiction Leading to Eastern European Women’s Imprisonment|107
3|8 Final Considerations: Tying Loose Ends|109
3|References|111
2|6: “To Kill or to Be Killed”: Narratives of Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence, Condemned for the Murder of Their Partners|116
3|1 Introduction|116
3|2 Hearing Women’s Voices: A Qualitative Study|118
4|2.1 Women as Marital Murderers and Bias in the Criminal Justice System|118
4|2.2 Our Study and the Defence of the Victim as an Offender Within the Portuguese Justice System|120
4|2.3 Description of the Study|122
4|2.4 Results|124
3|3 Final Considerations|128
3|References|130
1|Part II: Female Juvenile Delinquency: Victimizations, Delinquencies and the Juvenile Justice System|134
2|7: Heterosexual Dating Violence and Social Gender Relations: Voices of Young Portuguese Girls|135
3|1 Introduction|135
3|2 Heterosexual Dating Violence: A Qualitative Study|137
4|2.1 Youth Social Relationships Reconfiguration: From Stability to Fugacity|138
4|2.2 Practices and Social Meanings of Dating Violence: Reframing Gender Specificities|140
3|3 Problematizing Girls’ Voices|142
3|4 Conclusions|145
3|References|147
2|8: Constructing Meaning About the Delinquency of Young Girls in Public-Housing Neighbourhoods|152
3|1 Girls’ Delinquency in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods|152
3|2 The Research|155
3|3 The Gendered Social Learning of Delinquency|157
3|4 Girl’s Delinquency as a Female Business|165
3|5 Final Remarks|166
3|References|168
2|9: Gender and Crime in the Life Pathways of Young Women Offenders: Contrasting the Narratives of Girls and Professionals|172
3|1 Introduction|172
3|2 The Feminist Contributions to the Study of Women and Crime, Globally and in the Portuguese Context|173
3|3 Girls’ Narratives: Life Pathways, Meanings of Crime and Identity Construction in Young Women in Prison|178
3|4 Narratives of Professionals on the Involvement of Girls in Delinquent Groups|182
3|5 Contrasting the Narratives of Girls and Professionals|186
3|6 Conclusion|189
3|References|190
2|10: Girls and Transgressive Paths: A Case Study of Portuguese Girls in the Juvenile Justice System|192
3|1 Introduction|192
3|2 Girls and Delinquency|194
3|3 Methodology|198
3|4 Narratives and Transgressive Paths|199
3|5 Final Considerations and Open Discussions|203
3|References|208
1|Index|213