Women and Justice: Development of International Policy (Women & the Law) - Softcover

Muraskin, Roslyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9057005514 ISBN 13: 9789057005510

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Review:

"Women and Justice presents a wide-ranging assortment of scholarly work that provides perspective on the problems that different societies and 'justice' systems pose for women. The commonalities of violence and discrimination against women emerge poignantly from this collection of research from countries separated by geography, history and culture. One of the most important contributions of this anthology is that the authors do not stop at their descriptions of policies and practices that they detail in the different international contexts, but go forward to recommend directions for redressing the issues they describe."
-Susan Caringella-MacDonald of Professor, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University

Synopsis:

The discrimination and inequitable treatment of women within international criminal justice systems is the focus of this text. Illustrated within the nine chapters of the book, women, as a class, have been excluded from participating as workers in the criminal justice system. Women have also received inferior treatment when incarcerated, compared to their male counterparts; and have had their court proceedings influenced by sex role stereotypes when women are the victims of crime. These studies by international authors offer a global, comparative analysis of women in the criminal justice systems of South Korea, Finland, Egypt, Lebanon, Great Britain, the United States, and the Caribbean nations. Beyond analysis of past and existing circumstances, the authors also offer suggestions to grant women full equality in criminal justice policies and practices around the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 9057005514
• ISBN 13: 9789057005510
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244