Research Catalog

Title

Women on trial : a study of the female suspect, defendant, and offender in the criminal law and criminal justice system / Susan S.M. Edwards.

Author

Edwards, Susan S. M.

Publication

Manchester [Greater Manchester] ; Dover, N.H., USA : Manchester University Press, ©1984.

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Details

Description

xiii, 241 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Female offenders > Great Britain
• Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration > Great Britain
• Female offenders > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain
• Female offenders
• Female offenders > Legal status, laws, etc
• Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
• Frauenkriminalität
• Strafverfahren
• Frau
• Vrouwen
• Criminaliteit
• Criminelles > Grande-Bretagne
• Criminelles > Statut juridique > Grande-Bretagne
• Discrimination sexuelle dans l'administration de la justice pénale > Grande-Bretagne
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [227]-236.

Contents

Introduction: the legal organisation of sex, sexuality and gender -- A question of sex -- The common prostitute -- an antecedent presumption of guilt -- Medico-legal conundrums -- the legal organisation of physiological difference -- Female sexuality -- changing conceptions in the criminal law -- Indicators of suspicion -- detecting and apprehending suspects -- Sentencing negotiations -- excuses and justifications -- Crimes unnatural -- some criminological social and legal questions -- Individualised justice -- treatment, leniency or lessoned responsibility, or informal state control.

ISBN

• 0719009952
• 9780719009952

LCCN

83024840

OCLC

• ocm10163334
• 10163334
• SCSB-90006

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library