Women and the Criminal Justice System Failing Victims and Offenders? /

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system? In a landscape where women's involvem...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schlagworte:
Critical criminology.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Juvenile delinquents.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Crime-Sociological aspects.
ISBN:9783319767741
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Women and the Criminal Justice System; Karen Brennan, Emma Milne, Nigel South and Jackie Turton
  • Part 1 Women as Victims and Offenders
  • Chapter 2. Rape Myths in the Criminal Justice System; Jacqueline M. Gray and Miranda A. H. Horvath
  • Chapter 3. False Allegations of Sexual Violence; Charlotte Triggs
  • Chapter 4. Domestic Abuse; Aviah Sarah Day, Angela Jenner and Ruth Weir
  • Chapter 5. Criminalising Neonaticide; Karen Brennan and Emma Milne
  • Chapter 6. Understanding Violent Women; Emma Milne and Jackie Turton
  • Part 2: The Criminal Justice System: Failing or Improving?
  • Chapter 7. Sentencing Women in the Transformed Probation Landscape; Gemma Birkett
  • Chapter 8. Why Training Is Not Improving the Police Response to Sexual Violence Against Women; Elizabeth A. Stanko and Katrin Hohl
  • Chapter 9. Why Focus on Reducing Women's Imprisonment? ; Jenny Earle
  • Chapter 10. Women, Crime and Criminal Justice; Loraine Gelsthorpe.

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