Academic Reflection – Gender, Subjectivity and Criminal Responsibility

Authors

  • Arlie Loughnan University of Sydney

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.666

Keywords:

Nicola Lacey, Unspeakable Subjects, In Search of Criminal Responsibility, criminal responsibility, women and crime

Abstract

The topic of gender and criminal responsibility has long attracted critical scholarly attention. Several cohorts of feminist scholars in law, criminology and history have examined various dimensions of women’s responsibility for crime. Nicola Lacey’s work is at the forefront of this critical examination of gender and criminal responsibility. Lacey tackles this topic from both a feminist legal theory perspective and a criminal law theory perspective. This short paper offers some further comments on gender and criminal responsibility, with an examination of what I call the atypical criminal legal forms that govern women’s responsibility for crime in the current era. In so doing, I consider how some of the different dimensions of Lacey’s impressive oeuvre come together.

Author Biography

Arlie Loughnan, University of Sydney

Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Legal Theory, School of Law, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Published

21-12-2018

How to Cite

Loughnan, A. (2018). Academic Reflection – Gender, Subjectivity and Criminal Responsibility. Feminists@law, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.666

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Celebrating 20 Years of Nicola Lacey's Unspeakable Subjects

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