Carol Hedderman raises two important questions near the start of her article: are women treated differently from men by the criminal justice system, and should they be?
There is some useful revision here of the different theories about women and justice, namely the ‘double deviance’, ‘evil woman’ and ‘chivalry’ accounts. The author also shows how and why it is difficult to draw conclusions from patterns of sentencing, and explores the ways in which periods of imprisonment may affect women more adversely than men.
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