Misjustice : how British law is failing women
Kennedy, Helena2019
Book
Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (where only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% of inmates are held for non-violent offences despite the refrain that prison should only be used for violent or serious crime). In between are the so-called 'lifestyle' choices of the Rotherham girls; the failings of the current rules on excluding victims' sexual history from rape trials; battered wives being asked why they don't 'just leave' their partners; the way statistics hide the double discrimination experienced by BAME and disabled women; the failure to prosecute cases of female genital mutilation. the list goes on. The law holds up a mirror to society and it is failing women. The #MeToo campaign has been in part a reaction to those failures. So what comes next?
Main title:
Misjustice : how British law is failing women / Helena Kennedy.
Author:
Kennedy, Helena, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2019.
Collation:
344 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: as Eve was shamed. London: Chatto & Windus, 2018.Includes index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781784707682 (pbk)
Dewey class:
342.410878342.41
Local class:
CR.1/KEN
Language:
English
Added title:
Index terms:
AL564
BRN:
2852314