Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The idea that persons are now all free and equal is supposed to be fundamental to modern liberal legal systems. However, this text questions that ideal. It looks at slavery and the philosophical and legal reasonings as to why it should no longer exist, but reminds us that this is not the case...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work is the outcome of a seminar series on intention in law and philosophy conducted at the Law School, Adelaide University in 1999. Topics include: how decision theory illuminates assignments of moral responsibility; irresistible impulse; and collective intentions. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime. Tracing the intellectual history of criminology from its scientific foundations in the nineteenth century to its recent encounters with postmodernism, Naffine discusses the ways in which the discipline has established its priorities and values, and shows how men became and remain the central interest of the discipline...read more

Product Description: This text examines a variety of aspects of the relationship between feminism and criminology, looking at both female offenders and victims. Female crimes covered include prostitution, infanticide and the murder of husbands.

Product Description: Juvenile justice remains a central concern in Australian society in the 1990s. For many years it has attracted substantial public and government attention, and as a result there have been considerable changes to legislation, court procedures, policing and welfare intervention, often without the support of the systemic research...read more

Product Description: This explores the problems of gender and class bias inherent in the practice and very form of law. It does this by presenting a critique of a fundamental issue in law - the individual as envisaged by Anglo-Australian and American law...read more