Description
Shani D'Cruze and Louise A. Jackson provide students with a lively overview of women's relationship to the criminal justice system in England, exploring key debates in the regulation of 'respectable' and 'deviant' femininities over the last four centuries. Major issues include:
* attitudes towards murder and infanticide * prostitution
* the decline of witchcraft belief * sexual violence
* the 'girl delinquent' * theft and fraud
The volume also examines women's participation in illegal forms of protest and political activism, their experience of penal regimes as well as strategies of resistance, and their involvement in occupations associated with criminal justice itself. Assuming that men and women cannot be studied in isolation, D'Cruze and Jackson make reference to recent studies of masculinity and comment on the ways in which relations between men and women have been understood and negotiated across time.
Featuring examples drawn from a rich range of sources such as court records, autobiographies, literature and film, this is an ideal introduction to an increasingly popular area of study.
'Clear, comprehensive, engaging and well written. This book covers all of the main aspects of 'women and crime' over the last 350 years and does so in a detailed yet accessible way that makes it suitable for the undergraduate or new reader.' - Helen Johnston, University of Hull, UK 'This book is an outstanding achievement. It not only fills a major gap in textbook offerings in the area of criminal justice history in general, it also offers a comprehensive - perhaps even a pioneering - survey of one of that area's most perennially fascinating topics: the criminality of women.' - Simon Devereaux, University of Victoria, Canada
About the Author
SHANI D'CRUZE is an Honorary Reader in the Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice at the University of Keele, UK.
LOUISE A. JACKSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Reviews
'Clear, comprehensive, engaging and well written. This book covers all of the main aspects of 'women and crime' over the last 350 years and does so in a detailed yet accessible way that makes it suitable for the undergraduate or new reader.' - Helen Johnston, University of Hull, UK 'This book is an outstanding achievement. It not only fills a major gap in textbook offerings in the area of criminal justice history in general, it also offers a comprehensive - perhaps even a pioneering - survey of one of that area's most perennially fascinating topics: the criminality of women.' - Simon Devereaux, University of Victoria, Canada
Book Information
ISBN 9781403989734
Author Shani D'Cruze
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Red Globe Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 367g
* attitudes towards murder and infanticide * prostitution
* the decline of witchcraft belief * sexual violence
* the 'girl delinquent' * theft and fraud
The volume also examines women's participation in illegal forms of protest and political activism, their experience of penal regimes as well as strategies of resistance, and their involvement in occupations associated with criminal justice itself. Assuming that men and women cannot be studied in isolation, D'Cruze and Jackson make reference to recent studies of masculinity and comment on the ways in which relations between men and women have been understood and negotiated across time.
Featuring examples drawn from a rich range of sources such as court records, autobiographies, literature and film, this is an ideal introduction to an increasingly popular area of study.
'Clear, comprehensive, engaging and well written. This book covers all of the main aspects of 'women and crime' over the last 350 years and does so in a detailed yet accessible way that makes it suitable for the undergraduate or new reader.' - Helen Johnston, University of Hull, UK 'This book is an outstanding achievement. It not only fills a major gap in textbook offerings in the area of criminal justice history in general, it also offers a comprehensive - perhaps even a pioneering - survey of one of that area's most perennially fascinating topics: the criminality of women.' - Simon Devereaux, University of Victoria, Canada
About the Author
SHANI D'CRUZE is an Honorary Reader in the Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice at the University of Keele, UK.
LOUISE A. JACKSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Reviews
'Clear, comprehensive, engaging and well written. This book covers all of the main aspects of 'women and crime' over the last 350 years and does so in a detailed yet accessible way that makes it suitable for the undergraduate or new reader.' - Helen Johnston, University of Hull, UK 'This book is an outstanding achievement. It not only fills a major gap in textbook offerings in the area of criminal justice history in general, it also offers a comprehensive - perhaps even a pioneering - survey of one of that area's most perennially fascinating topics: the criminality of women.' - Simon Devereaux, University of Victoria, Canada
Book Information
ISBN 9781403989734
Author Shani D'Cruze
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Red Globe Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 367g
