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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Roberts, Joanna Marie | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-30T23:35:39Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-30T23:35:39Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/17877 | - |
| dc.language | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Department of Criminology, University of Leicester | en |
| dc.subject | Women | en |
| dc.subject | Domestic violence | en |
| dc.subject | Abuse | en |
| dc.subject | Prisoners | en |
| dc.title | 'It was do or die' - how a woman's experience of domestic abuse can influence her involvement in crime : a qualitative investigation of the experiences of community-based female offenders | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| dc.identifier.catalogid | 13111 | en |
| dc.identifier.url | https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/36256/1/2015robertsjmphd.pdf | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | new_record | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Invalid URL | en |
| dc.description.notes | "Female offenders are far more likely to have experienced domestic abuse than the<br/ >general female population. Yet despite wide acknowledgement of a relationship<br/ >between domestic abuse and female offending there is a lack of research seeking to<br/ >explore how this relationship operates. Therefore the central premise of this research<br/ >was to examine ways in which a woman's experience of domestic abuse may influence<br/ >her involvement in crime. By focusing upon how women cope with their experiences<br/ >of domestic abuse this research explored how women's actions and reactions, in<br/ >response to the abuse they experience, affected their offending.<br/ >The study was approached from a combined feminist and symbolic interactionist<br/ >perspective, drawing upon interviews with 25 community-based female offenders who<br/ >had experienced domestic abuse, placing the women's own voices and perspectives at<br/ >the very centre of the discourse. A supplementary sample of 15 probation service<br/ >practitioners were also interviewed to draw upon their experiences of supervising<br/ >female offenders.<br/ >The research findings reveal how women's situated, subjective and individualised<br/ >experiences within, and responses to, their abusive relationships can directly or<br/ >indirectly influence their offending. Consequently, this research demonstrates that<br/ >women's criminal offences can occur in a much wider context than has previously<br/ >been understood when examining the relationship between domestic abuse and<br/ >women's offending. Rather than women offending against, or with, an abuse<br/ >perpetrator, or being forced or coerced by an abuse perpetrator to commit crime, this<br/ >research illustrates the broader and longitudinal effects of domestic abuse.<br/ >Significantly, women's offences occur without their abuser present, after the<br/ >relationship has ended, or even years after the abuse has ceased, yet their actions can<br/ >still be attributed to their experience of domestic abuse. The findings have significant<br/ >implications for criminal justice policy and practice including magistrates' training, completion of pre-sentence reports and sentence compliance." | en |
| dc.date.entered | 2016-01-19 | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Leicester | en |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellaneous | |
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