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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: WOMEN AND CRIME Volume 2 WOMEN AND CRIME TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk WOMEN AND CRIME Edited by SATYANSHU K. MUKHERJEE AND JOCELYNNE A. SCUTT OR Routledge GDELTU Taylor & Francis Group E LONDON AND NEW YORK Firstpublishedin1981byGeorgeAllen&UnwinAustraliaPty.Ltd. Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2016 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninforma business ©1981AustralianInstituteofCriminology Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedor reproducedorutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical, orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,including photocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageor retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationand explanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-18723-8(Set) ISBN:978-1-315-64317-5(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-1-138-18655-2(Volume2)(hbk) ISBN:978-1-138-18656-9(Volume2)(pbk) ISBN:978-1-315-64377-9(Volume2)(ebk) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthis reprintbutpointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopies maybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersand wouldwelcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunableto trace. Women and Crime Edited by Satyanshu K. Mukherjee and J ocelynne A. Scutt ~ ~USTR:'-~IAN ~NSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY ~ tn assoctatton wtth GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN Sydney London Bo~on First published in 1981 by George Allen 8< Unwin Australia Pty. Ltd., 8 Napier Street, North Sydney, N.S.W., 2060 This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. All rights are reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the Copyright owner. Inquiries should be addressed to the publishers. © Australian Institute of Criminology 1981 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Women and Crime. Includes index. ISBN 0 86861 059 3 ISBN 0 86861 067 4 (pbk.). 1. Female offenders - Australia. I. Mukherjee, Satyanshu Kumar. II. Scutt, Jocelynne A. 364.3'74'0994 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81-65766 Printed in Singapore by Koon Wah Printing Pte Ltd. Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction Xli 1. Sexism in Criminal Law 1 }ocelynne A. Scutt 2. Hidden from History: Women Victims of Crime 22 Anne Summers 3. Women, Crime and Punishment 31 Elizabeth Windschuttle 4. The Mythinterpretation of Female Crime 51 Roslyn Omodei 5. Theorizing About Female Crime 70 Ngaire Naffin 6. The Processing of Juveniles in Victoria 92 Anne Edwards Hiller and Linda Hancock 7. The Myth of Rising Female Crime 127 Satyanshu K. Mukherjee and R. William Fitzgerald 8. Women in Constraints 167 Janette Hartz-Karp 9. Prisons, Prisoners and the Community 196 Sandra A.K. Willson Index 205 Acknowledgements Holding seminars and conferences is the function of the Train ing Division of the Institute and we are grateful that the proposal to hold the seminar on 'Women and Crime' was considered a valuable enterprise. We thank the contributors to this volume and the participants in the seminar whose comments have only improved the quality of the papers. Several individuals within the Institute facilitated the pub lication of this volume. Peter Kay and Jack Sandry, the former and present heads of the Publications Section respectively, have accomplished the 'style' editing, and Christine Grant has done an excellent job on typesetting and layout. In the Research Division, Barbara Jubb and Evelyn Jacobsen have carried out the tedious task of typing and proofreading. We are indebted to them all.
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