Research Catalog
Gender, crime, and justice
- Title
- Gender, crime, and justice / edited by Pat Carlen and Anne Worrall.
- Publication
- Milton Keynes, England ; Philadelphia : Open University, 1987.
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- Description
- 208 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Contributors to this collection analyse the relationship between the position of women in British society and how they are represented and treated in courts and prisons.
- Subject
- Female offenders > Great Britain
- Women prisoners > Great Britain
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration > Great Britain
- Criminal justice, Administration of > Great Britain
- 71.65 criminality as a social problem
- 71.33 women (sociology)
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Female offenders
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Women prisoners
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Frauenkriminalität
- Weibliche Strafgefangene
- Strafrechtspleging
- Criminaliteit
- Vrouwendiscriminatie
- Prisonnières > Grande-Bretagne
- Criminelles > Grande-Bretagne
- Justice pénale > Administration > Grande-Bretagne
- Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale
- Administration of criminal justice > Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 191-201.
- Contents
- Introduction: gender, crime and justice / Pat Carlen and Anne Worrall -- Women and crime: questions for criminology / Frances Heidensohn -- Women on welfare: in crime or injustice? / Dee Cook -- Prostitutes: victims of law, social policy and organised crime / Susan S.M. Edwards -- Proving sexual assault: prosecuting the offender or persecuting the victim? / Gerry Chambers and Ann Millar -- Rendering them harmless: the professional portrayal of women charged with serious violent crimes / Hilary Allen -- The question of bail: magistrates' responses to applications for bail on behalf of men and women defendants / Mary Eaton -- Sisters in law? Women defendants and women magistrates / Anne Worrall -- Out of care, into custody: dimensions and deconstructions of the state's regulation of twenty-two young working-class women / Pat Carlen -- Women in prison: the treatment, the control and the experience / Elaine Genders and Elaine Player -- Women's imprisonment in England, Wales and Scotland: recurring issues / Josie O'Dwyer, Judi Wilson and Pat Carlen.
- ISBN
- 0335155057
- 9780335155057
- 0335155049
- 9780335155040
- LCCN
- 87001510
- OCLC
- ocm15108823
- 15108823
- SCSB-1199523
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library