This chapter, which examines the relevance of gender to an understanding of criminal justice responses to offending and victimisation, covers: gender differences in criminal involvement; gender and sentencing; gender and punishment; gender and ‘victimisation’; and gender and the criminal justice professions.
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12. Gender and criminal justice
Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor
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7. Sentencing
Gavin Dingwall
This chapter examines sentencing policy and practice. The discussions cover the evolution of sentencing policy 1991–2011; consistency in sentencing; providing guidance to sentencers; ethnicity and sentencing; and gender and sentencing.
