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Gender, Crime, and Punishment (Paperback, New Ed)
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Are men and women who are prosecuted for similar crimes punished
differently? If it is true, as is commonly assumed, that women are
sentenced more leniently than men, does this tendency vary by class
and race? In this book Kathleen Daly explores these issues by
analyzing women's and men's cases that are routinely processed in
felony courts-cases of homicide, aggravated assault, robbery,
larceny, and drug offenses. Daly first presents a statistical
analysis of sentencing disparity for a wide sample of cases. Then,
from within this sample, she compares forty matched pairs of women
and men accused and convicted of statutorily similar offenses,
examining in each case the presentence investigation reports and
transcripts of the remarks made in court on the day of sentencing.
From these documents, Daly constructs a portrait of each defendant
and a narrative for each crime, and she identifies the theory of
punishment the judge used to justify the sentence imposed. She
analyzes whether men and women are pulled into crime in different
ways, whether their offenses are comparably serious, and whether
court officials use different conceptions of justice in sentencing
men and women. By providing both numerical and narrative
descriptions of crime and punishment, Daly shows the inadequacies
of quantitative analysis: although her statistics, like those of
other studies, suggest that women are favored, her close comparison
of the matched pairs indicates that gender differences are
negligible when the details of the cases are taken into
consideration.
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