Discourses on women and shoplifting : a critical analysis of why female crime mythologies past and present operate to legitimate the incompatibility between female gender roles and the idea of women as active agents of crime

This thesis looks at what has been said and what can be said about women and shoplifting. The first section introduces and discusses oral history as a method and includes original oral history material through the testimony of Shirley Pitts, who lived in London between 1934-1992 and who earned her l...

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Main Author: Gamman, Lorraine
Published: Middlesex University 1999
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519347