This is the first book to explore coercion as a pathway into crime for co-offending women. Using newspaper articles and case and court files, it analyses four cases of women co-accused of a crime with their partner who suggested that coercive techniques had influenced their involvement in the offending. Considering the legal and social construction of coercion, this fascinating book concludes by exploring the implications for public understanding of coercion and female offending more broadly.
Mediated representations and understandings of co-offending women;
Theoretical understandings of coercion as a pathway into crime;
Understanding the social construction of coerced women;
A feminist critique of representations of potentially coerced women;
Applying the `continuum of coercion': an alternative, feminist framework;
Coerced women and criminology: looking to the future.
