Women and their ‘uncontrollable impulses’: The medicalisation of women’s crime and differential gender sentencing

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-77

  Armstrong, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURT; CRIME; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LAW; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; OFFENDER; REVIEW; VICTIM;

EID: 0032731686     PISSN: 13218719     EISSN: 19341687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13218719909524949     Document Type: Article

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