Female offenders experience very different treatment from male offenders at the hands of the courts and welfare agencies. In Offending Women, former probation officer Anne Worrall draws on detailed empirical research to examine why this is, how the situation is perpetuated, and what the implications are for women. The author looks at the wholly inadequate categorizations applied to women who offend and the inappropriate solutions offered to their ill-defined problems. In acknowledging the State's powerlessness to categorize them, Worrall builds up a fascinating concept of the 'nondescriptiveness' of certain women offenders. By defying description they are largely neglected by (and elude the control of) professional expertise. The author then examines the relevance of the concept to a broader sociology of women's experiences. Offending Women provides an interesting and useful theoretical analysis of the discourse surrounding women's deviancy. Based on interviews with probation officers, magistrates, solicitors, psychiatrists, and female lawbreakers themselves, the book will be essential reading for practitioners in the field as well as academics in criminology and women's studies.

Relaas vol humor van de wederwaardigheden van een eigengereid vaderloos gezin in een behoudend Brabants dorp.

Presents a year-long look at the life of the British pop icon who joined "Take That" in 1991 and left the band after eight number one singles.

Set van twee delen (alleen te koop als set) met correspondentie en z-w ill., namen- en boektitelindex.

What on earth is postmodernism? This is a guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept which is supposed to define the human cultural condition at the end of the 20th century.

A collection of essays by a Muslim woman and Dutch parliamentarian criticizes the treatment of Muslim women and the western world's tolerance of such treatment, in a volume that includes the script for her film, "Submission."

The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.