Any Woman's Blues: A Critical Overview of Women, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System

The article presents key elements critical to a radical view of the phenomenon of female crime and experience with the criminal justice system. Topics discussed include a critique on traditional and criminological literature on women, a description of how the scholarship was used in the formulation...

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Main Author: Klein, Dorie (Author)
Contributors: Kress, June
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
In: Social justice
Year: 2013, Volume: 40, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 162-191
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Criminal justice planning
Criminological Research
Criminal Justice System
Women criminals
Criminal Law
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Summary:The article presents key elements critical to a radical view of the phenomenon of female crime and experience with the criminal justice system. Topics discussed include a critique on traditional and criminological literature on women, a description of how the scholarship was used in the formulation of criminal justice planning and the basic tenets of radical criminology and the position of the women in contemporary American society and the criminal justice system as an instrument of control.
ISSN:2327-641X