LAWS 2301 Chapter : Reading 3.doc
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In this way, a bifurcation has appeared between an applied feminist legal realism and a speculative feminist legal utopian. Temporary and non-serious disagreements between partners, best resolved without police intervention. Some thoughts on equality, fairness and gender in the field of criminal justice: questions about gender and justice are firmly on both academic and public agendas, what are less clear however, are the basic assumptions which underpin these. In the views of women defendants and victims in the criminal justice system there is a sense of outrage greater than that which the violation of rational principles would justify. It is rather surprising that arguments about equal treatment with women have hardly ever been used by men seeking redress of grievances. It is the one that most feminists take for granted in measuring and pointing out deficiencies in present provision and practices.