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Women's Liberation: Is It Smashing The Hothouse?, Wendy Tarnoff Jan 1980

Women's Liberation: Is It Smashing The Hothouse?, Wendy Tarnoff

Honors Papers

Since this paper has concentrated on the cultural and societal influences on women's roles, and how these affect their criminal behavior, these variables rather than exclusively economic ones, will be presented now in relatively economic homogeneous contexts. The remaining discussion will, therefore, compare the patterns and trends of female criminal behavior in England-Wales and Japan with those in the United States. A final note will be made on some research done by Safilios-Rothschild in Greece concerning socio-cultural changes which have occurred in Greece, and how they have affected the commission of "honor crimes."


Cases Notes, Santa Clara Law Review Jan 1979

Cases Notes, Santa Clara Law Review

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Maryland Commission For Women: Advocates For Change, Lindsay Schlottman Jan 1977

The Maryland Commission For Women: Advocates For Change, Lindsay Schlottman

University of Baltimore Law Forum

No abstract provided.


Toward A Critical Theory Of Female Criminality, Ann Curry Thompson Apr 1976

Toward A Critical Theory Of Female Criminality, Ann Curry Thompson

IUSTITIA

Twentieth-century theories about female criminality are the weakest link in conventional criminology, representing the most conservative and unscientific thinking about human nature and social organization. Traditional thinking about female criminality reflects the general inability of conventional theorists to examine categories of sex, race, and class oppression as determined by the basic social structure of a particular society and as they relate to deviance and crime. The result has been that female deviance has been analyzed solely in light of assumptions about women's biological nature. Whether there is indeed something distinctive about female crime which can be explained apart from a …


The University Of South Carolina Law School Corrections Clinic, Cody W. Smith Jr. Jan 1971

The University Of South Carolina Law School Corrections Clinic, Cody W. Smith Jr.

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.