Women Judges in Contemporary China

Anqi Shen is Reader in Law at Teesside University, UK. Her research focus is in the areas of organised crime, gender, youth, crime and justice, the legal profession, judicial culture, and migration and crime. She is author of Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime (Palgrave, 2015).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Researching Judges in China.- Chapter 3. The Chinese Judiciary and Its Gendered Construction.- 3.1. The Chinese Judicial System and Practice.- 3.2. Women Judges and Their Work in Court.- Chapter 4. Women in the Judiciary.- 4.1. Entry into the Judiciary and Career Paths.- 4.2. Women’s Position in the Judiciary.- Chapter 5. Women and Judging.- 5.1. Women’s Experiences in Judging.- 5.2. Judging Female Offenders.- Chapter 6. Female Judges and Living.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.