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Women, Crime and Criminal Justice: Tales of Two Cities

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This chapter reviews positive developments since the publication of the Baroness Corston’s report, A Review of women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice system, but also outlines some of the challenges to prompt concern and critical reflection. In the first tale we learn about positive strides in creating appropriate responses for women in conflict with the law. The second tale focuses on the shadows of criminal justice reform, and on the neglect of some groups of women such as ‘victim-offenders’, those who may have been humanly trafficked into the country, but then criminalised because of offences relating to legal status. The contrasting tales suggest that there is much more work to be done.

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    Loraine Gelsthorpe

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  4. University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

    Jackie Turton

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Gelsthorpe, L. (2018). Women, Crime and Criminal Justice: Tales of Two Cities. In: Milne, E., Brennan, K., South, N., Turton, J. (eds) Women and the Criminal Justice System. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76774-1_10

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