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This chapter defines gender and intersectionality as concepts and perspectives, and discusses previous criminological work that utilises these perspectives. It explains that the book’s approach is informed by popular criminology (Rafter and Brown, Criminology Goes to the Movies, New York University Press, 2011) and imaginative criminology (Seal and O’Neill, Imaginative Criminology: of Spaces Past, Present and Future, Bristol University Press) and discusses representations from film and television alongside academic literature. There is also an outline of the structure of the chapters.

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