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The Women of CourtWatch

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Author : Carole Bell Ford
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292781946
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Women of CourtWatch written by Carole Bell Ford and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston was a terrible place to divorce or seek child custody in the 1980s and early 1990s. Family court judges routinely rendered verdicts that damaged the interests of women and children. In some especially shocking cases, they even granted custody to fathers who had been accused of molesting their own children. Yet despite persistent allegations of cronyism, incompetence, sexism, racism, bribery, and fraud, the judges wielded such political power and influence that removing them seemed all but impossible. The family court system was clearly broken, but there appeared to be no way to fix it. This book recounts the inspiring and courageous story of women activists who came together to oppose Houston's family court judges and whose political action committee, CourtWatch, played a crucial role in defeating five of the judges in the 1994 judicial election. Carole Bell Ford draws on extensive interviews with Florence Kusnetz, the attorney who led the reform effort, and other CourtWatch veterans, as well as news accounts, to provide a full history of the formation, struggles, and successes of a women's grassroots organization that overcame powerful political interests to improve Houston's family courts. More than just a local story, however, this history of CourtWatch provides a model that can be used by activists in other communities in which legal and social institutions have gone astray. It also honors the heroism of Florence Kusnetz, whose commitment to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam ("repairing and improving the world") brought her out of a comfortable retirement to fight for justice for women and children.

Courtwatch Report

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Author : Karen Czapanskiy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (283 download)

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Feminist Advocacy

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Author : Andrea J. Nichols
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739180355
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Advocacy written by Andrea J. Nichols and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Advocacy: Gendered Organizations in Community-based Responses to Domestic Violence examines victim advocacy through a gendered organizations perspective. This monograph draws from in-depth interviews with twenty-six domestic violence victim advocates to examine their experiences with gendered policies and practices in the justice system, child protective services, and shelters. Andrea J. Nichols explores justice system interventions related to pro-arrest, dual arrest, no-drop prosecution, protective orders, and the actions of police and judges. In addition, she examines policies and practices related to child protective services that negatively affect battered women, such as charges for failure to protect and lost custody. Nichols also explores the most contentiously debated shelter policies, including curfew, confidentiality, substance abuse, entrance requirements, admitting adolescent boys, and mandatory classes. Drawing from advocates’ narratives of their experiences, Feminist Advocacy bears significant implications for policy and practice in community-based responses to domestic violence. This book will prove especially valuable to anyone who studies or works in the fields of social work, human services, criminal justice, or criminology, including advocates, practitioners, students, academic researchers, and those interested in intimate partner violence.

The Women's Court Watch

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Author : Woman Abuse Council of Toronto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Women's Court Watch written by Woman Abuse Council of Toronto and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Opening the Courts to the Community

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Author : W. Clinton Terry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Opening the Courts to the Community written by W. Clinton Terry and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gender and Justice

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Author : Sally Jane Kenney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415881439
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Justice written by Sally Jane Kenney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for use in courses on law and society, as well as courses in women's and gender studies, women and politics, and women and the law - this book that takes up the question of what women judges signify in several different jurisdictions in the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union. In so doing, its empirical case studies uniquely offer a model of how to study gender as a social process rather than merely studying women and treating sex as a variable. A gender analysis yields a fuller understanding of emotions and social movement mobilization, backlash, policy implementation, agenda setting, and representation. Lastly, the book makes a non-essentialist case for more women judges, that is, one that does not rest on women's difference.

Women's Court Watch Project

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Author : Tamara Sheats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (484 download)

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Routine Justice

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Author : Marcia J. Lipetz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412833493
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Routine Justice written by Marcia J. Lipetz and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crimes of Womanhood

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Author : A. Cheree Carlson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090764
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Crimes of Womanhood written by A. Cheree Carlson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America. By examining the colorful rhetorical strategies employed by lawyers and reporters of women's trials in newspaper articles, trial transcriptions, and popular accounts, A. Cheree Carlson argues that the men in charge of these communication avenues were able to transform their own values and morals into believable narratives that persuaded judges, juries, and the general public of a woman's guilt or innocence. Carlson analyzes the situations of several women of varying historical stature, from the insanity trials of Mary Todd Lincoln and Lizzie Borden's trial for the brutal slaying of her father and stepmother, to lesser-known trials involving insanity, infidelity, murder, abortion, and interracial marriage. The insanity trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard, the wife of a minister, resulted from her attempts to change her own religion, while a jury acquitted Mary Harris for killing her married lover, suggesting that loss of virginity to an adulterous man was justifiable grounds for homicide. The popular conception of abortion as a "woman's crime" came to the fore in the case of Ann Loman (also known as Madame Restell), who performed abortions in New York both before and after it became a crime. Finally, Alice Rhinelander was sued for fraud by her new husband Leonard for "passing" as white, but the jury was more moved by the notion of Alice being betrayed as a woman by her litigious husband than by the supposed defrauding of Leonard as a white male. Alice won the case, but the image of womanhood as in need of sympathy and protection won out as well. At the heart of these cases, Carlson reveals clearly just how narrow was the line that women had to walk, since the same womanly virtues that were expected of them--passivity, frailty, and purity--could be turned against them at any time. These trials of popular status are especially significant because they reflect the attitudes of the broad audience, indicate which forms of knowledge are easily manipulated, and allow us to analyze how the verdict is argued outside the courtroom in the public and press. With gripping retellings and incisive analysis of these scandalous criminal and civil cases, this book will appeal to historians, rhetoricians, feminist researchers, and anyone who enjoys courtroom drama.

Justice for Women?

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Author : Mary Eaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Justice for Women? written by Mary Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dit boek gaat niet alleen over de behandeling van vrouwelijke gedaagden voor de rechtbank, het gaat ook over het de achterstelling van vrouwen buiten het strafrecht. De behandeling door de rechter is een van de aspecten waarbij vrouwen worden achtergesteld. In pleidooien, in rapporten en in reacties van rechters worden de door sekse bepaalde rollen bevestigd. De ondergeschikte rol van vrouwen in het strafrecht is een afspiegeling van de rol die vrouwen hebben binnen het gezin.

Second Report

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Author : New Jersey. Supreme Court. Task Force on Women in the Courts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Second Report written by New Jersey. Supreme Court. Task Force on Women in the Courts and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Supreme Court Watch 2007

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Author : David O'Brien
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393932126
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Supreme Court Watch 2007 written by David O'Brien and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each annual edition of Supreme Court Watch offers students narratives and analyses of legal disputes, political battles, and social confrontations as they unfold before the Supreme Court. Also included are numerous excerpts from the justices' opinions and dissents on the Court's most influential cases of the past three terms, as well as a running preview of the cases awaiting the Court in the forthcoming term.

Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom

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Author : Mary Lay Schuster
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1555537499
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom written by Mary Lay Schuster and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a deeply textured view of how victims' voices are introduced and heard in courts

Women in the Judiciary

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Author : Ulrike Schultz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135707405
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Judiciary written by Ulrike Schultz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does gender matter in judging? And if so, in what way? Why were there so few women judges only two or three decades ago, and why are there so many now in most countries of the Western world? How do women judges experience their work in a previously male-dominated environment? What are their professional careers? How do they organise and live their lives? And, finally and most notably: do women judge differently from men (or even better)? These are the questions dealt with in this collection of contributions by seven authors from six countries (UK, Australia, USA, Canada, Syria and Argentina), contrasting views from common law and civil law countries. In spite of differences in the two legal systems, as well as greater gender diversity on the bench and the overall higher income and prestige enjoyed by judges in common law countries, women judges in all these countries – Syria included – share many problems. Diverse and intriguing facets are added to a debate that started thirty years ago but continues to leave ample space for further discussion. This book was originally published as a special issue of International Journal of the Legal Profession

Women in the Courts

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Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)

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Litigating Women

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Author : Teresa Phipps
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100052888X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Litigating Women written by Teresa Phipps and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-growing field. Individually, the chapters offer an insight into the motivations and strategies of women who engaged in legal action in a wide range of courts, from local rural and urban courts, to ecclesiastical courts and the highest jurisdictions of crown and parliament. Collectively, the focus on individual women litigants – rather than how women were defined by legal systems – highlights continuities in their experiences of justice, while also demonstrating the unique and intersecting factors that influenced each woman’s negotiation of the courts. Spanning a broad chronology and a wide range of contexts, these studies also offer a valuable insight into the practices and priorities of the many courts under discussion that goes beyond our focus on women litigants. Drawing on archival research from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the Low Countries, Central and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, Litigating Women is the perfect resource for students and scholars interested in legal studies and gender in medieval and early modern Europe.

Supreme Court Watch ...

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Author : David M. O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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