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| Type: | Book Chapter |
| Title: | Rendering women punishable: the making of a penal crisis |
| Other Titles: | Women and punishment : the struggle for justice |
| Authors: | Worrall, Anne |
| Keywords: | Criminal justice responses;Theories of violence |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Publisher: | Willan Pub., Devon |
| Notes: | This chapter explores the shifting culture of punishment towards women in England and Wales; Australian and US examples are also included. An increase in female imprisonment reveals the ‘contemporary search for equivalence’ and the emergence of categories of female offenders. It is argued that political discourses are responsible for gender-neutral perceptions of and responses to criminal behaviour. The implications for the moral retreat from the traditional domestication, welfarisation, medicalisation and sexualisation of women’s offending are explored. The new psychology of female violence is also discussed. |
| URI: | https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/11179 |
| ISBN: | 9781903240588 |
| Physical description: | xiv, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Appears in Collections: | Book Chapters |
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