The socio-legal response(s) to women who kill : a proposed model for acknowledging their agency

This thesis will explore the socio-legal response(s) to women who kill. Interrogating the constructions of “woman” and “femininity” within criminal legal discourse it will argue that the agency (that is, the ability of an individual to choose to act in a particular way) of women who kill is denied,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weare, Siobhan
Other Authors: Gillespie, Alisdair ; Beresford, Sarah
Published: Lancaster University 2014
Subjects:
345
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569497