Aberrance, agency and social constructions of women offenders
PhD Thesis
Title | Aberrance, agency and social constructions of women offenders |
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Type | PhD Thesis |
Authors | |
Author | Quadrelli, Carol |
Supervisor | Carpenter, Belinda |
Petrie, Simon | |
Institution of Origin | Queensland University of Technology |
Qualification Name | Doctor of Philosophy |
Number of Pages | 259 |
Year | 2003 |
Abstract | Traditionally offending women are framed through essentialist discourses of pathologisation and the family. Hence, good women are constructed as passive, compliant. vulnerable to victimisation, and nurturers. Offending women are constructed within criminal justice processes as disordered, physiologically and psychologically flawed. Censure or sympathy dispensed to women within the system is contingent on a number of key factors: the type of offence, the category of women involved, and the way in which women interact and negotiate the discourses used to construct their aberrance. The focus of this thesis is offending women and how they are socially constructed through legal and penal discourses within the court and the prison. However this thesis rejects the essentialist framework which positions women as passive recipients of an omnipotent patriarchal criminal justice system and thus having no agency. Nor is this thesis about creating a new entity to encompass all offending women. Instead an ant-essentialist approach is adopted that allows the body, power, and women's agency to be theorised. This approach provides a more complex and detailed account of women's aberrance that acknowledges the divers range of women, their experiences and negotiations of the criminal justice processes. The combination of real women' lived expediences and an alternative theoretical framework provides a very different perspective in which to understand female offending. |
Keywords | aberrance, agency, female offenders; women's prisons; women's experiences of the criminal justice system; resistance |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 489999. Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified |
Byline Affiliations | Queensland University of Technology |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q72w4/aberrance-agency-and-social-constructions-of-women-offenders
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