Anne Worrall

Offending Women

Female Lawbreakers and the Criminal Justice System

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A useful theoretical analysis of the discourse surrounding women's deviancy. Based on hundreds of interviews with magistrates, solicitors, psychiatrists, probabtion officers, and particularly female lawbreakers themselves this book is key for those studying criminology and women's studies as well as for practitioners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 141mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415037259
• ISBN-10: 0415037255
• Artikelnr.: 21352494

Autorenporträt

Anne Worrall

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 THEORIZING WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES 2 RULES AND AUTHORITY 3 NOT
MAD ENOUGH, NOT BAD ENOUGH: FIFTEEN FEMALE LAW-BREAKERS 4 INVISIBLE WOMEN?
5 GUILTY WOMEN? 6 TREATABLE WOMEN? 7 MANAGEABLE WOMEN? 8 LISTENING TO
WOMEN-A FOOTNOTE? 9 WOMEN OFFENDERS OR OFFENDING WOMEN? Appendix:
researching women