Coercion And Women Co-Offenders: A Gendered Pathway Into Crime (Shorts Research)

This is the first book to study the role coercion plays as a pathway into crime for women who are arrested alongside other defendants. Drawing on court files and newspaper accounts, it analyzes four cases of women who were arrested alongside a partner and who argued in their defense that they had been coerced. Charlotte Barlow examines these cases from a feminist perspective that allows her to highlight the importance of gender expectations and gendered discourse in both the trials themselves and the way the media covered them.

• | Author: Charlotte Barlow
• | Publisher: Policy Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1447330986
• | ISBN-13: 9781447330981