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Women and Judging

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Women Judges in Contemporary China

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This chapter discusses women’s experiences in judging—specifically, handling cases and making judicial decisions. The first part of the chapter starts with a discussion on gender equality in the judicial process in China. It then offers a number of case studies to examine female judges’ experiences as to what they do to go about judging as a judge, and their experiences as women in judicial practices. The second part of the chapter explores women judges’ views on female offending and their attitudes towards punishing female offenders, to gain insights into women’s judicial behaviour in decision-making. This chapter presents women judges’ own narratives and biographies, which indicate the experiences that they bring in judicial operations and their contributions to law and judicial production.

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Shen, A. (2017). Women and Judging. In: Women Judges in Contemporary China. Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57840-8_5

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