Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to explore coercion as a pathway into crime for co-offending women. It analyses four cases of women co-accused of a crime with their partner who suggested that coercive techniques had influenced their involvement and concludes by exploring the implications for public understanding of coercion and female offending.
Trade Review“Barlow brings a fresh approach to understanding how women’s offending behaviour is represented differently by the media, the legal profession and by women themselves and develops the helpful notion of a `continuation of coercion’” Karen Ross, Newcastle University
Table of ContentsMediated representations and understandings of co-offending women; Theoretical understandings of coercion as a pathway into crime; Understanding the social construction of coerced women; A feminist critique of representations of potentially coerced women; Applying the `continuum of coercion’: an alternative, feminist framework; Coerced women and criminology: looking to the future.
