Gender, Crime, and Punishment

by Kathleen Daly

Book Overview

Are men and women who are prosecuted for similar crimes punished differently? If it is true, as is commonly assumed, that women are sentenced more leniently than men, does this tendency vary by class and race?

In this book Kathleen Daly explores these issues by analyzing women's and men's cases that are routinely processed in felony courts--cases of homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, larceny, and drug offenses. Daly first presents a statistical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300068662
• ISBN13: 9780300068665
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"