NCJ Number
127255
Editor(s)
P Carlen,
A Worrall
Date Published
1987
Length
208 pages
Annotation
These 10 papers analyze the relationships among women's status in society and their representation and treatment in the criminal justice system in Great Britain.
Abstract
The papers also focus on the relationships between class exploitation, racism, or both and the social control of women in general and female offenders in particular. They also consider the actual, appropriate, and possible relationships between formal criminal justice and the substantive inequities resulting from racism, class exploitation, and patriarchal domination. Individual papers examine issues related to women on welfare, social policy and organized crime in relation to prostitutes, the problems involved in proving sexual assault, and professionals' views regarding women charged with serious violent crimes. Other papers discuss magistrates' responses to bail applications for male and female defendants; the handling of female defendants by female magistrates; the experiences of female prison inmates; and recurring issues related to female inmates in England, Wales, and Scotland. Tables, chapter notes, author index, subject index, and 337 references