TY - GEN T1 - Gender, crime, and punishment A1 - Daly, Kathleen, 1948- LA - English PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 1994 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm48139031 AB - Are men and women who are persecuted for similar crimes punished differently? If it is true, as is commonly assumed, that women are sentenced more leniently than men, does this tendency vary by class and race? In this book Kathleen Daly explores these issues by analyzing women's and men's cases that are routinely processed in felony courts - cases of homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, larceny, and drug offenses. Daly first presents a statistical analysis of sentencing disparity for a wide sample of cases. Then, from within this sample, she compares forty matched pairs of women and men accused and convicted of statutorily similar offenses, examining in each case the presentence investigation reports and transcripts of the remarks made in court on the day of sentencing. From these documents, Daly constructs a portrait of each defendant and a narrative for each crime, and she identifies the theory of punishment the judge used to justify the sentence imposed. She analyzes whether men and women are pulled into crime in different ways, whether their offenses are comparably serious, and whether court officials use different conceptions of justice in sentencing men and women. By providing both numerical and narrative descriptions of crime and punishment, Daly shows the inadequacies of quantitative analysis: although her statistics, like those of other studies, suggest that women are favored, her close comparison of the matched pairs indicates that gender differences are negligible when the details of the cases are taken into consideration. OP - 337 CN - HV9956.N48 D35 1994eb SN - 0585373132 SN - 9780585373133 SN - 0300059558 KW - Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration : Connecticut : New Haven. KW - Female offenders : Connecticut : New Haven. KW - Women prisoners : Connecticut : New Haven. KW - Discrimination sexuelle dans l'administration de la justice pénale : Connecticut : New Haven. KW - Criminelles : Connecticut : New Haven. KW - Prisonnières : Connecticut : New Haven. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Criminology. KW - Female offenders KW - Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration KW - Women prisoners KW - Connecticut : New Haven ER -