Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Feminized justice : the Toronto Women's Court, 1913-34
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Amanda Glasbeek
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
-
- 227 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0774817119, 9780774817110
- OCLC
- ocn436844422
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-220) and index.
- The Toronto Women's Police Court as an institution -- Feminism, moral equality, and the criminal law : the women's court as feminized justice -- "The badness of their badness when they're bad" : women, crime, and the Court -- "What chance is there for a girl?" : vagrancy and theft charges in the women's court -- "Up again, Jenny?" : repeat offenders in the women's court -- "Can her justice be just?" : Margaret Patterson, male critics, and female criminals
Subjects
- Local Council of Women of Toronto -- History.
- Female offenders -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History.
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History.
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History.
- Feminism -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History.
- Feminism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto.