Women and the Criminal Justice System

Emma Milne is Lecturer in Criminology at Middlesex University, UK. Karen Brennan is Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex, UK.Nigel South is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Criminology, University of Essex, UK, and visiting Adjunct Professor at the Crime and Justice Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.Jackie Turton is Professor in the Sociology Department at Essex University, UK.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Women and the Criminal Justice System; Karen Brennan, Emma Milne, Nigel South and Jackie Turton.-  Part 1 Women as Victims and Offenders.- Chapter 2. Rape Myths in the Criminal Justice System; Jacqueline M. Gray and Miranda A. H. Horvath.- Chapter 3. False Allegations of Sexual Violence; Charlotte Triggs.- Chapter 4. Domestic Abuse; Aviah Sarah Day, Angela Jenner and Ruth Weir.- Chapter 5. Criminalising Neonaticide; Karen Brennan and Emma Milne.- Chapter 6. Understanding Violent Women; Emma Milne and Jackie Turton.- Part 2: The Criminal Justice System: Failing or Improving?.- Chapter 7. Sentencing Women in the Transformed Probation Landscape; Gemma Birkett.- Chapter 8. Why Training Is Not Improving the Police Response to Sexual Violence Against Women; Elizabeth A. Stanko and Katrin Hohl.- Chapter 9. Why Focus on Reducing Women’s Imprisonment? ; Jenny Earle.- Chapter 10. Women, Crime and Criminal Justice; Loraine Gelsthorpe.