Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman

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Nevertheless, my experience of seeing the human cost when legal standards are lowered and wrongful convictions follow has taught me the imperative of keeping the bar high. The profound misogyny of Isis means that some of these women will themselves have been victims of terrible abuse, and will have been subjected to duress and coercion. The legal system will have the difficult role of charting a course through uncorroborated accounts, fragile evidence and strong public hostility to determine where real guilt lies. This is the complex terrain of justice, and it requires our utmost vigilance. When Knox was filmed after her eventual reprieve, she spoke about how she came to be perceived. “I was some heinous whore – bestial, sex-obsessed and unnatural.” She pointed out that she had had sex with seven men – not a world record. There is no doubt that her sexual desire as a young woman was used to implicate her in the murder. She was asked on primetime television whether she was into deviant sex. Throughout the case, judgments about Knox were being based on how we perceive female sexuality and what it says about a woman if she has multiple lovers. It is these extraneous factors that make justice processes for women so much more fraught with risk. women attempt to rewrite the origin of these derogatory teachings in the 19 thcentury with feminist reinterpretation, its simply seen as an alteration that

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Due to the intertwined nature of specific undesirable behaviours with Eve it has resulted in a negative stereotypical view of the female form. This is undeniably still present to this day. The evolution of society has begun to attempt to fracture the seemingly undetachable inherently negative characteristics from the female being. This liberation is far from complete and still continues to silence women. Portraying any deviation from the perfect subordinate being as other and villainous. Social oppression through forms such as stereotypes, social activities and instinctual responses to situations dehumanises many women across the world but is also allows males to use this as a reason behind their controlling behaviour (Smart & Smart, 1978). They control these women under the pretence that they are fulfilling their right and duty to ensure that standards imposed upon women are being met. It’s not only controlling manipulative men that are imposing these standards. The court of law may not be physically beating these women into submission but they are restricting their agency. The legal system specifically holds a stereotypical view of the family, this belief seeps into other institutions within the country (Eaton, 1986). They impose sanctions on the basis of conformity and expose and exploit any deviation from the submissive female model. These institutions homogenise the female eradicating any sense of diversity. Including killer women who have endured many different events and have been subject to unjust scrutiny from wider society’s expectations regarding appropriate behaviour. It was hard to see beyond the strength of character and force of will that she came to exude in middle age. Her all-too-late confessions of guilt in relation to the original charges and the further admissions of two additional murders were hard to interpret as genuine repentance, and appeared rather as part of calculated machinations for getting herself released. Press revelations of her lesbian relationships in prison, in an era of deeply ingrained hostility to anyone who was gay, never mind a convicted felon, had further stoked the fires of abhorrence.These people exhibited ‘atavistic’ (i.e. primitive) features. Atavistic derives from the word “avatus”, which means ancestor in Latin.

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Lombroso argued that criminals were not to blame for their criminal activities as their behavior was determined by their physiology.Cesare Lombroso (Verona, 6 novembre 1835 - Torino, 19 ottobre 1909), e stato un medico, antropologo, criminologo e giurista italiano. Esponente del Positivismo, e stato uno dei pionieri degli studi sulla criminalita, e fondatore dell'antropologia criminale. Il suo lavoro e stato fortemente influenzato dalla fisiognomica, dal darwinismo sociale e dalla frenologia. Later that same day, Turner was continuing to refuse to wear a mask and tried to remove her handcuffs. She then spat at a PC, the spittle landing on their stab vest and causing concern given her claims of having Covid. Almost four hours later she spat at another officer and it landed on their leg.