Abstract
These conference papers highlight the experiences of Australian women as victims of laws, courts, police, the economic structure, correction policies, and individual oppressors. They also reveal some positive changes. Part 1 : Women and the laws in Australia, covers both current laws and law reform. Part 2 : Women and the criminal justice system, includes papers on female defendants and practitioners, as well as women's experience with police and prisons.
Proceedings of a conference held 24-26 September 1991
Contents
- Opening Address
Margaret Reynolds
Part 1: Women and the laws in Australia
- Introduction to part 1: Women and the laws in Australia
Dr Patricia Easteal
The laws
- The incredible woman: a recurring character in criminal law
Dr Jocelynne Scutt - Invisible lives: women, dependence and the law
Dr Suzanne Hatty - Battered women who kill: a plea of self-defence
Dr Patricia Easteal - Rape prosecutions in Victoria
Dr David Brereton - Aboriginal women and the law
Sharon Payne - Migrant women and the law: barriers to access and equity
Bronwyn Scheelbeek - Women and economic status
Steven Mark
Law reform
- Street prostitution and its manipulation by law in New South Wales
Roberta Perkins - Prostitution in NSW: the impact of deregulation
Dr Sandra Egger and Christine Harcourt - Human rights - another look at abortion
Beryl Holmes - Lunar landscapes: the dark side of sexual assault and the law
Lea Corbett and Wendy Larcombe
Part 2: Women and the criminal justice system
- Introduction to part 2: Women and the criminal justice system
Dr Patricia Easteal
Defendants
- Homicide: women as offenders
Dr Kenneth Polk - Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in the courtroom
Dr Patricia Easteal - Women, social security and criminal justice
Fiona McDonald - Sentencing female offenders in the magistrates' court: preliminary report on a pilot study
Bronwyn Naylor
Practitioners
- Women in the legal profession: theory and research
Dr Sharyn Roach Anleu - Feminisation of the magistrate's courts: the influence of gender?
Roger Douglas and Kathy Laster - The history of women in the police service
Christine Nixon
Vis a vis Police
- All's fair in love and war: policing women
Jude McCulloch
Prisons
- The big prison
Amanda George - Penal policies: the hidden contracts
Dr Ann Aungles - Children of prisoners and their outside carers: the invisible population
Gloria Larman and Dr Ann Aungles