Offending Women: Female Lawbreakers and the Criminal Justice System

ISBN-13: 9780415037259 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 200 str.

Anne Worrall

Opis

Offending Women provides a useful theoretical analysis of the discourse surrounding women's deviancy. It is based on hundreds of interviews with probation officers, magistrates, solicitors, psychiatrists and female offenders themselves.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Anne Worrall