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Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law


ISBN13: 9781859415269
ISBN: 1859415261
Published: November 2000
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £48.99



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Criminal law has traditionally been taught and analysed as if the gender of criminals and their victims is irrelevant. It has also been taught and analysed as if criminal law doctrine has no connection with questions of criminalisation,crime detection, decisions to charge and prosecute, lawyers trial tactics, decisions as to guilt and sentencing policy and practice, all of which are significantly affected by gender. This book seeks to fill these gaps by looking at the major areas in which gender affects the way that suspected criminals and their victims are treated by the criminal justice system. However, this book is not just a supplement to traditional criminal law discourse. It is a dangerous supplement, in that the focus on gender challenges laws claim to neutrality and even-handed justice. The essays in this book establish that, not only does the law frequently fail to offer women the sort of protection from male violence and sexual invasion that they need, but it continues to discriminate on grounds of gender. Even when discriminating in favour of women, it does so in ways that reinforce dangerous gender stereotypes.;More specifically, both criminal law doctrine and criminal justice personnel apply and reinforce ideas, on the one hand, of female passivity, irrationality and proneness to illness, and, on the other, of natural male aggression - both physical and sexual.

Subjects:
Criminal Law
Contents:
1. Criminal Law and Feminism; 2. Women's Involvement in the Criminal Justice System; 3. Feminist Perspectives on the Theories of Punishment; 4. Against the Politics of Sex Discrimination; 5. General Principles of Criminal Law? A Feminist View;2 ; 6. Re-Reading Criminal Law: Gendering the Mental Element; 7. Groups, Girls and Fear; 8. General Defences; 9. Female-Specific Defences to Criminal Liability; 10. Rape and Criminal Justice at the Millennium; 11. Commercial Sex and Criminal Law; 12. Masculinity and Offences against the Person