Offending Women: Female Lawbreakers and the Criminal Justice System / Edition 1

by Anne Worrall

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415037259
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/07/1989
Series:	Sociology of Law and Crime Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anne Worrall

Table of Contents

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