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NCJ Number:	115341

Title:	Criminal Law and Women (From Criminal Justice System and Women, P 9-33, 1982, Barbara Reffel Price and Natalie J Sokoloff, eds. -- See NCJ-115340)

Author(s):	N J Sokoloff; B R Price

Date Published:	1982

Page Count:	25

Sponsoring Agency:	Clark Boardman Company, Ltd New York, NY 10014

Sale Source:	Clark Boardman Company, Ltd 435 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014 United States of America

Type:	Issue Overview

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	To clarify concerns about the law and its relationship to women, this chapter examines the law and lawmakers, its effects, the influence of crime causation theories, women under the law, and social movements affecting women and the law.

Abstract:	In its broadest sense, law is a set of formalized and codified rules that govern behavior and carry negative sanctions for violations. Rich, white males are most influential in making laws. Women, minorities, the poor, and the working class rarely benefit from it. Because the law is created by and for the dominant class, it tends to criminalize nondominant classes who also are most likely to be victims of crime. Traditionally, women have been treated as property under the law. But today, women are seen as equal before the law, yet their patriarchal relation to the home as wives and mothers has consequences for their treatment in the larger society, while traditional notions of sex-roles continue to influence their treatment under the law. Three movements have been influential in challenging sexually discriminatory law at the State and Federal levels: the women's movement, the prisoners' rights movement, and sentencing reform. 9 notes and 48 references.

Main Term(s):	Sociology of law

Index Term(s):	Class discrimination; Female sex roles; Sex discrimination

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