In this book‎,‎ Kerry Carrington takes a bold‎,‎ critical and reflexive approach to understanding the global divisions and inequalities that shape distinctive patterns of gender and crime‎.‎ The book argues that in order for feminist criminology to enhance its conceptual and political relevance in the twenty‎-first century‎,‎ bold new directions in scholarship on gender‎,‎ crime and global justice are required that also take into account global divisions and inequalities‎.‎ Issues explored in the book include the forced marriage of child brides‎,‎ female genital mutilation‎,‎ feminicide‎,‎ honour crimes‎,‎ rape and domestic violence‎,‎ and the systemic denial of female rights justified by religion‎,‎ custom or culture‎.‎ It also explores rising rates of violence recorded for women offenders globally‎,‎ and their increasing participation in terrorism‎,‎ as well as troubling male‎-on‎-male violence in anomic spaces cultivated by globalising forces‎.‎ Feminism and Global Justice argues that the world needs feminism more than ever to address systemic culturally shaped and diverse forms of injustice experienced by females across the globe‎,‎ many of them children‎.‎ It will be essential reading for international and national human rights organisations‎,‎ as well as academics and students engaged in the study of criminology‎,‎ development studies‎,‎ sociology‎,‎ politics‎,‎ and gender studies‎.‎