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Do women accept legal restrictions more than their male counterparts?
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 2007
- Magazine Number
- 1/2
- Creator
- Eterno, John A.
- Thesaurus
- politie, politieagenten, beleid, man vrouw verschillen, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Description of similarities and differences between male and female officers' legal behaviors, based on a study of the use of the Compstat model, an aggressive, crime-fighting style of policing.
an attitudinal assessment of future law enforcement personnel
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 1999
- Magazine Number
- 4
- Creator
- Austin, T.L.
- Creator
- Hummer, D.
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- politie, politieagenten, man vrouw verschillen, onderwijs, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The present research assesses the attitudes of 835 undergraduate students at a midsize, state-supported university in the Northeast toward women in the field of policing.
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 2000
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Stalans, L.J.
- Creator
- Finn, M.A.
- Thesaurus
- politie, huiselijk geweld, man vrouw verschillen
- Description
- Some scholars argue that a greater number of women police officers may improve the plight of battered women through increased arrest rates and referrals to battered shelters. The authors examine how women and men police officers perceive and respond to a hypothetical realistic domestic violence situation, and three manipulated features of the situation: wife's conduct (normal, hallucinating, drunken), presence of visible injuries on the wife: and antagonism between wife and husband. Women and men did not differ on arrest rates: however, women were more likely to recommend battered shelters and less likely to recommend marriage counseling. These gender differences occurred only for experienced women. Women also assigned more importance to the victim's willingness to settle the argument in their arrest decisions.
myth, reality, or hyperbole?
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 2000
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Lynch, D.R.
- Thesaurus
- juridische beroepen, man vrouw verschillen
- Description
- A popular perception among some criminal attorneys is that female public defenders are more stressed than are males by the type of occupational conflict that is central to the adversarial role. One might also be tempted to make such an inference upon examination of literature on sex-based differences in the areas of aggression, competitiveness, and role expectations, and after review of the works of relational feminists and some feminist legal scholars. However, this paper presents results of regression analyses which suggest that though some gender-based sensitivity to criminal courthouse conflict appears to exist, evidence that such sensitivity is of any substantive magnitude is lacking. Hence, concerns that conflict-based advocacy is a 'male way' of practicing criminal law or that greater risks confront female defenders than male defenders in the areas of health and career satisfaction were not supported by these data.
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 1997
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Worden, Alissa Pollitz
- Thesaurus
- strafrecht, man vrouw verschillen, ethiek, rechtshulp
- Description
- This study is a theoretical application and empirical test of difference theory in the context of private criminal law practice. Difference theory posits that gender is associated with varation in perspective on justice and morality, and examination of mainstream professional values in the legal system reveals those values to emphasize what are thought to be masculinist values. Hence it is hypothesized that female lawyers will depart from male norms in their expressions of professional values. Result of a survey reveals limited support for these theoretical predictions.
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 2005
- Magazine Number
- 1/2
- Creator
- Seng, Yvonne J.
- Creator
- Lurigio, Arthur J.
- Thesaurus
- gedetineerden, reclassering, man vrouw verschillen
- Description
- The authors surveyed and interviewed probation officers to examine their perceptions about the special needs of women probationers and explored officers' experiences with women probationers. Probation officers believe women and men on probation have different needs and therefore require different supervision strategies. Results suggest that the multiple problems and challenges female clients present to their officers and the greater emotionality they express in their interactions with officers, often place considerable demands on officers' time, energy and skills.
Providing Comfort to Citizens
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 2004
- Magazine Number
- 3/4
- Creator
- DeJong, Christina
- Thesaurus
- politie, man vrouw verschillen
- Description
- This paper focuses on how male and female officers respond to citizens differently in terms of providing comfort. Results from this analysis indicate that neither officer attitude nor behavior is dictated by officer sex, but other important variables interact with sex to explain attitude and behavior. Situational factors are most important in determining officer behavior.
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Hart, Cynthia Baroody
- Thesaurus
- man vrouw verschillen, gedetineerden
- Description
- This paper presents the results from two independent studies investigating social support among correctional inmates focusing on the relationship between social support and psychological well-being. The female inmates were found to have higher levels of social support than the sample of male inmates. It was also found that there is a relationship between social support and psychological well-being for the incarcerated women, but was not found to exist for the male inmates. ( Ondersteuning: Welzijn )
three hypotheses of disparity
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Farnworth, Margaret
- Creator
- Teske, Raymond H.C.
- Description
- Interactive analyses examined three related hypotheses of disparity. The typicality hypothesis proposes that women are treated with chivalry in criminal processing, but only when their charges are consistent with stereotypes of female offenders. Selective chivalry predicts that decision makers extend chivalry disproportionately to white female. Differential discretion suggests that disparity is most likely in informal decisions such as charge reduction rather than in formal decisions at final sentencing. Data for the analysis derived from 9,966 felony theft cases and 18,176 felony assault cases disposed in California in 1988. Gender disparity was evident in findings that females with no prior record were more likely than similar males to receive charge reductions, and this enhanced females' chances for probation. The only indication of selective chivalry was a greater tendency to change charges of assault to nonassault among white female defendants than among minority females. Pivotal decisions concerning charge reduction provided partial support for the notion of differential discretion. The findings provided no clear support for the typicality thesis.
the impact measurement on gender differences in gang self-identification and delinquent involvement
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Women and Criminal Justice
- Magazine Year
- 2002
- Magazine Number
- 2/3
- Creator
- Bjerregaard, Beth
- Thesaurus
- criminaliteit, man vrouw verschillen, sekse identiteit
- Description
- Although research in the last decade has focused on juvenile gangs and the consequences of gang involvement, there has been considerable debate in the literature concerning both the conceptualization and the operationalization of the term gang membership. This research examines the extent to which the operationalization of gang membership impacts prevalence rates of both gang membership and delinquent involvement and whether this varies by gender. The findings suggest that the type of operationalization utilized by the researcher does impact both the prevalence rates of gang membership and delinquent involvement. Further, this impact varies by gender. An unrestricted definition of gang membership compared to more restrictive definitions yields conflicting findings with regard to the impact of gender on gang membership. Whereas the unrestricted measure of gang membership yielded significant gender differences, the more restrictive measure of organized gang membership produced no significant gender differences. The findings indicate the need to further address the issue of operationalization in our empirical studies of gang membership and to be sensitive to the potential impact this may have on gender differences reported by researchers.
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