Women and the Criminal Justice System Failing Victims and Offenders? /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Milne, Emma (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Brennan, Karen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), South, Nigel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Turton, Jackie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Critical criminology.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Juvenile delinquents.; Corrections.; Punishment.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Criminal Justice.; Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.; Prison and Punishment.; Crime and Society.

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system? In a landscape where women's involvem...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Women and the Criminal Justice System; Karen Brennan, Emma Milne, Nigel South and Jackie Turton
• Part 1 Women as Victims and Offenders
• Chapter 2. Rape Myths in the Criminal Justice System; Jacqueline M. Gray and Miranda A. H. Horvath
• Chapter 3. False Allegations of Sexual Violence; Charlotte Triggs
• Chapter 4. Domestic Abuse; Aviah Sarah Day, Angela Jenner and Ruth Weir
• Chapter 5. Criminalising Neonaticide; Karen Brennan and Emma Milne
• Chapter 6. Understanding Violent Women; Emma Milne and Jackie Turton
• Part 2: The Criminal Justice System: Failing or Improving?
• Chapter 7. Sentencing Women in the Transformed Probation Landscape; Gemma Birkett
• Chapter 8. Why Training Is Not Improving the Police Response to Sexual Violence Against Women; Elizabeth A. Stanko and Katrin Hohl
• Chapter 9. Why Focus on Reducing Women's Imprisonment? ; Jenny Earle
• Chapter 10. Women, Crime and Criminal Justice; Loraine Gelsthorpe.