AIC Conference Proceedings

No. 16: Women and the law : proceedings of a conference held 24-26 September 1991

Patricia Weiser Easteal and Sandra McKillop (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 18639 1 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1993

Abstract

These conference papers highlight the experiences of Australian women as victims of laws, courts, police, the economic structure,corrections 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.

Contents

• Opening Address (PDF 11kB)
  Senator Margaret Reynolds

Part 1 : Women and the laws in Australia

• Introduction to part 1 : Women and the laws in Australia (PDF 15kB)
  Dr Patricia Easteal

The laws

• The incredible woman : a recurring character in criminal law
  Jocelynne Scutt
• Invisible lives : women, dependence and the law
  Suzanne Hatty
• Battered women who kill : a plea of self-defence
  Patricia Weiser Easteal
• Rape prosecutions in Victoria
  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
  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 (PDF 14kB)
  Dr Patricia Easteal

Defendents

• Homicide : women as offenders
  Kenneth Polk
• Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in the courtroom
  Patricia Weiser 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
  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
  Ann Aungles
• Children of prisoners and their outside carers : the invisible population
  Gloria Larman and Ann Aungles