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Female Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of
criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender
which underpin many contemporary crime theories. In reveals the
ways in which male-centred norms dominated much analysis, and how
crude stereotypes of women were a common attribute to the armoury
of criminological research. Although feminists and other
researchers are directing increasing attention to criminology, this
was one of the first attempts to deploy feminist analyses developed
within other disciplines to examine critically the range of modern
criminological theories on women. Its findings demonstrate the
importance of a program to create a new feminist criminology which
recognises the female offender as a reasoning, purposeful subject.
This title will be of interest to students of criminology.
This title was first published in 2001. Legal systems are posited
on the assumption that people are rational intentional agents who
can choose to follow or break the law. This book connects the
common interests of lawyers and philosophers in the meaning of
intention and its relation to responsibility in legal, moral and
political contexts.
This title was first published in 2001. Legal systems are posited
on the assumption that people are rational intentional agents who
can choose to follow or break the law. This book connects the
common interests of lawyers and philosophers in the meaning of
intention and its relation to responsibility in legal, moral and
political contexts.
Female Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of
criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender
which underpin many contemporary crime theories. In reveals the
ways in which male-centred norms dominated much analysis, and how
crude stereotypes of women were a common attribute to the armoury
of criminological research. Although feminists and other
researchers are directing increasing attention to criminology, this
was one of the first attempts to deploy feminist analyses developed
within other disciplines to examine critically the range of modern
criminological theories on women. Its findings demonstrate the
importance of a program to create a new feminist criminology which
recognises the female offender as a reasoning, purposeful subject.
This title will be of interest to students of criminology.
The leading articles on gender and justice within Anglo-American
legal theory are assembled in this volume. The essays are drawn
primarily from the writings of lawyers working in the common law
tradition and they mainly examine the justice of legal
institutions. Due to the close kinship between political and legal
theories of justice, the book also includes a selection of the work
of the more prominent political theorists of justice and gender.
The perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer
is "What is law?" or perhaps "What is the nature of law?" This book
poses an associated (but no less fundamental) question about law
which has received much less attention in the legal literature.
This question is: "Who is law for?" Whenever people go to law, they
are judged for their suitability as legal persons. They are given
or refused rights and duties on the basis of ideas about who
matters. These ideas are basic to legal-decision making. They form
the intellectual and moral underpinning of legal thought. They help
to determine whether law is essentially for rational human beings,
or whether it also speaks to and for human infants, adults with
impaired reasoning, the comatose, fetuses, and even animals. Are
these the right kind of beings to enter legal relationships and so
become legal persons? Are they considered sufficiently rational,
sacred, or simply human? Is law meant for them? This book reveals
and evaluates the type of thinking that goes into these fundamental
legal and metaphysical determinations about who should be capable
of bearing legal rights and duties. It identifies and analyzes four
influential ways of thinking about legal persons, each with its own
metaphysical suppositions. One approach derives from rationalist
philosophy, a second from religion, a third from evolutionary
biology, while the fourth is strictly legalistic and so endeavors
to eschew metaphysics altogether. The book offers a clear,
coherent, and critical account of these complex moral and
intellectual processes entailed in the making of legal persons.
Men have always dominated the most basic precepts of the criminal
legal world - its norms, its priorities and its character. Men have
been the regulators and the regulated: the main subjects and
objects of criminal law and by far the more dangerous sex. And yet
men, as men, are still hardly talked about as the determining force
within criminal law or in its exegesis. This book brings men into
sharp focus, as the pervasively powerful interest group, whose
wants and preoccupations have shaped the discipline. This
constitutes the 'man problem' of criminal law. This new analysis
probes the unacknowledged thinking of generations of influential
legal men, which includes the psychological and legal techniques
that have obscured the operation of bias, even to the legal experts
themselves. It explains how men's interests have influenced the
most cherished legal norms, especially the rules of human contact,
which were designed to protect men from other men, while
specifically securing lawful sexual access to at least one woman.
The aim is to test the discipline's broadest commitments to
civility, and its trajectory towards the final resolution, when men
and women were declared to be equal and equivalent legal persons.
In the process it exposes the morally and intellectually limiting
consequences of male power.
Men have always dominated the most basic precepts of the criminal
legal world - its norms, its priorities and its character. Men have
been the regulators and the regulated: the main subjects and
objects of criminal law and by far the more dangerous sex. And yet
men, as men, are still hardly talked about as the determining force
within criminal law or in its exegesis. This book brings men into
sharp focus, as the pervasively powerful interest group, whose
wants and preoccupations have shaped the discipline. This
constitutes the 'man problem' of criminal law. This new analysis
probes the unacknowledged thinking of generations of influential
legal men, which includes the psychological and legal techniques
that have obscured the operation of bias, even to the legal experts
themselves. It explains how men's interests have influenced the
most cherished legal norms, especially the rules of human contact,
which were designed to protect men from other men, while
specifically securing lawful sexual access to at least one woman.
The aim is to test the discipline's broadest commitments to
civility, and its trajectory towards the final resolution, when men
and women were declared to be equal and equivalent legal persons.
In the process it exposes the morally and intellectually limiting
consequences of male power.
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