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"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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Daly's analysis of crimes prosecuted and punishments pronounced in a metropolitan felony court represents a compelling contribution to literature on gender, crime, and the interpretation of social science data. She compares the records of women and men, examining both their respective "pathways" to criminality and the punishments received. The differences that may be attributed to gender are smaller by far than what most previous scholarship suggests, yet the distinctions Daly does discover are highly credible, thanks to her painstaking logic and analytical acumen. This work contrasts the findings of an aggregated quantitative data analysis with the results of a detailed qualitative inquiry about pairs drawn from the same sample. Gender gaps that appear to be persistent under statistical controls tend to dissolve in the deeper scrutiny of qualitative comparisons. One important result for feminist scholarship is how these findings challenge expected paternalism, on the one hand, and "evil woman" effects, on the other, in criminal justice judgments. Daly's writing makes accessible differing philosophies about sentencing and varying semantics about crime and punishment. The best works in several disciplines that address gender, crime, and punishment are instructively noted throughout this book, and the bibliography is outstanding. Upper-division undergraduates and above. R. Zingraff; Meredith College