Gendered justice? : how women's attempts to cope with, survive, or escape domestic abuse can drive them into crime
Women who encounter the criminal justice system are far more likely to have experienced domestic or sexual abuse than the wider female population. Despite widespread recognition of the link between a woman's victimisation and her involvement in crime, the relationship between the two is still n...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2022.
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| Series | Feminist developments in violence and abuse
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781802620719 |
| DOI | 10.1108/9781802620696 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (200 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Women and domestic abuse
- Chapter 2. Women and crime: Situating women's offending within a gendered context
- Chapter 3. Women's pathways into offending and domestic abuse: Does a relationship between the two exist outside of a simple co-occurrence?
- Chapter 4. Women's pathways into offending manifesting as a by-product of attempting to cope with, survive, or escape domestic abuse
- Chapter 5. May and robin: How women's involvement in crime can manifest as a by-product of coping with or surviving domestic abuse
- Chapter 6. Charlie, donna, skye and ellie: Offending to escape or survive abuse
- Chapter 7. Grace, linda and shayan: The long-term impact of surviving domestic abuse on women's pathways into offending
- Chapter 8. Sian, april and mary: How perpetrators of domestic abuse employ the criminal justice system as a mechanism/weapon of abuse
- Chapter 9. Summer and skye: How a woman's experience of domestic abuse can affect her ability to carry out her sentence in the community
- Chapter 10. Probation staff perspectives: The impact of women's domestic abuse victimisation upon their sentencing, support and supervision
- Chapter 11. Conclusions, recommendations and implications.