1st Edition
Gendered Responses to Male Offending in Barbados Patriarchal Perceptions and Their Effect on Offender Treatment
By Corin Bailey
Copyright 2020
124 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
124 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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It is generally accepted that men commit more crimes than women. The widespread acceptance of this view is based primarily on the number of convictions with most jurisdictions reporting considerably fewer incarcerated women/girls than men/boys. This manuscript argues however that decisions made by the various stakeholders that play a role in the incarceration of men are inherently gendered. These... Read more
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Concepts and context
3 Gender and family relations in Barbados and the Caribbean
4 The intersection between male offending, civil society and the police
5 Gendered decision making in the courts
6 The voices of male offenders: responses to poverty and threatened masculinity
7 Conclusion
References
Index
Biography
Corin Bailey is a Senior research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He is a sociologist with a specific focus on crime and poverty-related research.
