Abstract
Amsterdam Law Forum (ALF) is the student-run 'International Law Journal' of VU University. Every year ALF publishes a winter, spring, and summer issue. The journal consists of three sections; scientific articles, opinion articles, and commentaries. As of this year, ALF also creates a section for inaugural speeches. In addition, ALF hosts a conference in spring with a relevant legal theme, where renowned speakers are invited to share their perspectives. Overall, ALF is a topical journal that provides a platform for established scholars and young academics to share knowledge, opinions and experiences and to make contributions to the international law discourse. Staff, PhD students and master students who have written a very good thesis are invited to submit an article to ALF. What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb: we are looking forward to sharing your articles on our website!
Highlights
While the numbers of women and girls coming under the remit of criminal justice agencies may have been increasing over the last few decades[1] across the world females still remain a minority population within the workings of every criminal justice system in existence and as a result their voices remain largely silenced, their experiences largely untold, and their needs rarely met
VOL 3:2 convicted of an offence.[5]. Each of these examples demonstrates the existence of criminal justice and legislative environments which appear unfit to protect and service the needs of female offenders and victims. This continuing disregard for matters of gender in the delivery of criminal justice persists despite decades of feminist-inspired research, theory and practice which have highlighted significant differences in the circumstances in which women experience crime as offenders or victims and argued that these differences cannot be ignored
A commitment “to develop action-oriented policy recommendations based on the special needs of women as prisoners and offenders” has even been enshrined by United Nations resolution 55/59 in December 2000 later strengthened by draft rules, formulated in Bangkok in 2009 calling for gender
Summary
While the numbers of women and girls coming under the remit of criminal justice agencies may have been increasing over the last few decades[1] across the world females still remain a minority population within the workings of every criminal justice system in existence and as a result their voices remain largely silenced, their experiences largely untold, and their needs rarely met. VOL 3:2 convicted of an offence.[5] Each of these examples demonstrates the existence of criminal justice and legislative environments which appear unfit to protect and service the needs of female offenders and victims This continuing disregard for matters of gender in the delivery of criminal justice persists despite decades of feminist-inspired research, theory and practice which have highlighted significant differences in the circumstances in which women experience crime as offenders or victims and argued that these differences cannot be ignored. A growing number of nations, states and organisations, both national and supra-national in nature, began to acknowledge that existing criminal justice and especially penal practices have not been sufficiently attentive to women’s needs, and have, perhaps unintentionally it was suggested, discriminated against women as a result.[7] A commitment “to develop action-oriented policy recommendations based on the special needs of women as prisoners and offenders” has even been enshrined by United Nations resolution 55/59 in December 2000 later strengthened by draft rules, formulated in Bangkok in 2009 calling for gender-. The British context to gender-responsive policies will be looked into in some detail and the strength and power of the critique or backlash to gender-responsivity will be assessed
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