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90 (1992) 25 ANZJ Crim BOOK REVIEWS Sex and Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women Since 1880, Judith A Allen, Oxford University Press, Melboume (1990). As Allen notes early in her book, Australian historians have neglected the study of crime; and what there is has been focused on a materialist analysis of men's offending, Rather than attempting a monolithic explanation of 'crime', Allen explicitly focuses on crimes involving women and relations between the sexes. She deals with crimes where wornen predominate as offenders; principally prostitution, infanticide and abortion and crimes where wornen are the victims of interpersonal (sexual) violence and homicide. The focus is on the social and political context of sex-related crimes, enabling the reader to locate laws and policing practices within particular social, economic and political contexts. Allen puts an argument familiar in criminology that crime statistics reflect police discretion and changing police priorities and practices as weil as changes in laws and regulations. Hence, a major focus is historical changes in patterns of policing and the interrelationships between policing and wider structural factors. Three aspects of Allen's approach warrant particular rnention. Rather than a crime-specific analysis, she has chosen to highlight sequential historical developments in laws and
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Mar 1, 1992
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