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Coercion and women co-offenders : a gendered pathway into crime /
This is the first book to explore coercion as a pathway into crime for co-offending women. It analyses four cases of women co-accused of a crime with their partner who suggested that coercive techniques had influenced their involvement and concludes by exploring the implications for public understan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Policy Press shorts. Research.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COERCION AND WOMEN CO-OFFENDERS; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction; 1. Mediated representations and understandings of co-offending women; Introduction ; The dichotomies of 'man' and 'woman' and malestream criminology; Women offenders as 'others'; Mediated representations of female offending; Female offending stock narratives; Representations of female and male co-offending; Conclusion; 2. Theoretical understandings of coercion as a pathway into crime; Introduction; Pathways into crime for women offenders; Co-offending and coercion; The binary of agency and coercion.
- Context and contribution3. Understanding the social construction of coerced women; Introduction; Feminist methodological approach; Case study approach; Using documents in criminological research; Conclusion; 4. A feminist critique of representations of potentially coerced women; Introduction; 'Bad women': influence of gendered discourses; Equally bad or worse? The representation of women-co-offenders offending role; Conclusion; 5. Applying the 'continuum of coercion': an alternative, feminist framework; Introduction; A rational choice?; 'Continuum of coercion'; Conclusion.
- 6. Coerced women and criminology: looking to the futureReferences; Index.