Understanding Violent Women

Milne, Emma; Turton, Jackie

Abstract

Violent women pose a specific challenge for feminist scholars. Nevertheless, it is important for both the offender and her victims that feminists engage with this form of offending. This chapter considers some of the data concerning women’s violence, the public and professional responses to violent women and how researchers have attempted to understand their behaviour. Focusing around ‘extreme’ deeds, we use two forms of offending—women who kill, and women who sexually abuse children—to explore what we know about female violence and the significance of gender in both social and legal contexts.

Citation

Milne, E., & Turton, J. (2018). Understanding Violent Women. In E. Milne, K. Brennan, N. South, & J. Turton (Eds.), Women and the Criminal Justice System (119-139). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76774-1_6

• Online Publication Date: May 4, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 17, 2020
• Pages: 119-139
• Book Title: Women and the Criminal Justice System
• Chapter Number: 6
• ISBN: 978-3-319-76773-4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76774-1_6
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1650500
• Related Public URLs: http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/23549/
• Contract Date: Nov 17, 2017