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WOMEN AND THE LAW: PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE HELD SEPTEMBER 24-26, 1991

NCJ Number
143330
Editor(s)
P W Easteal, S McKillop
Date Published
1993
Length
273 pages
Annotation
A 1991 conference held in Sydney, Australia focused on the experiences of female victims in Australia, with emphasis on sex discrimination in the laws, the courts, the police, the economic structure, and individuals in the home or elsewhere.
Abstract
The conference was sponsored by the Australian Institute of Criminology and attended by female attorneys, academicians, government personnel, and workers in programs serving victims of rape or domestic assault. Individual presentations focused on assumptions about women as indicated in the criminal law, the concept of dependence as defined in the law, and the use of the self-defense plea by abused women who murder. Additional presentations focused on rape prosecutions, the law in relation to Aboriginal women, migrant women and the law, the economic status of women, laws regarding prostitution, and legal aspects of abortion. Further presentations focused on female defendants, premenstrual syndrome as a defense, female police, female attorneys, female court personnel, female inmates, the children of female inmates, and corrections policies and their impacts on women. Tables, figures, footnotes, chapter reference lists, and index