gender and justicewomen and criminal justiceThe law is "male". This is because the legislative process is always male dominant. Wife could not be able to be raped by her husband until as late as 1991. YeSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
This paper demonstrates how racial stereotypes popularized in British society impinge on criminal justice discursive constructions of masculine culture as a privilege confined to white males. It focuses on the racial dichotomy in patterns of discursive response to similar sexual (hetero) behaviors of ...
The essay suggests that the treatment of women in criminal justice matters exemplifies the apparently...doi:10.2307/591552James SheptyckiPat CarlenAnne WorrallLoraine GelsthorpeAllison MorrisBritish Journal of SociologyCarlen, Pat (ed.),...
A look into the cybercriminal gender gap, the status and perceptions on gender profiles in the underground, and the role assumptions have for law enforcement. Key Findings Due to anonymity, gender plays a smaller role in underground cybercriminal forums, where people are valued more for their ...
Undergraduate sociatl work and criminal justice students completed 1 of 4 vignettes that were identical with the exception of the age and gender of the vignette's subject. In each vignette, the subject interacted with an opposite-sex 24-year-old waiter or waitress. Following each vignette, respo...
andjustice, which critically interrogates not only disparities in the distribution of justice, but also the ways that structural violence shapes the vulnerability of women of color to various forms of violence and punitive sanctions. New research and theorizations in this area, including Black feminis...
“We are definitely moving in the right direction towards gender parity, and having an equal number of male and female law graduates is a very good start, but it is just the beginning,” she says. “Achieving gender equality requires leadership in all parts of society and industry, from peo...
The spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Sub-Sharan Africa has provided a new arena for gender-based violence (GBV). Unfortunately, the growth of ICT has out-paced legal developments to regulate it. In this article we explore the
"Gender, Indigeneity, and the Criminal Courts: A Narrative Exploration of Women's Sentencing in Western Australia." Women & Criminal Justice 23:19-42.Jeffries, S., & Bond, C. W. (2013). Gender, indigeneity, and the criminal courts: A narrative exploration of women's sentencing in Western...
Focus on human rights and gender justice The years 2004 and 2005 have been marked by significant events in the field of women's rights: 2004saw the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms ofDiscrimination Against Women (CEDAW) by the G... B Neu...