Bill McCarthy

Bill McCarthy is a professor of sociology at the University of California Davis. He has also worked in the sociology departments at the University of Victoria and the University of Toronto. His first book, with John Hagan, "Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness," won the 1998 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book on Crime Award and the 1997 Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Outstanding Book on Social Problems Award. His most recent book, with Rosemary Gartner, "The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime" is an edited volume. It contains 35 chapters written by a diverse cast of criminologists, historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and sociologists from a number of countries. The Handbook includes examinations of the historical and contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as well as biological, psychological, and social science perspectives on gender, sex, and criminal activity. Several essays discuss the ways in which sex and gender influence legal and popular reactions to crime.