This book examines how Ugandan society, the law and women's violent crime interrelate. The author draws on her own research conducted with women prisoners and women living in polygamous families, to provide detailed individual accounts of violent crime committed by women. She considers these accounts in social context, exploring the circumstances in which women become involved in homicide and assault, and establishes what patterns and social relationships may predispose women to homicide, and violence in general. She further discusses women's crime in the context of debates on rationality and pathology, and gender assumptions about women and crime, arguing that theories of crime must take account of gender. In these aspects this book goes some way in redressing the tendency of criminologists and sociologists in the African context to regard crime as a male phenomenon and women as victims; and so neglect the study of the nature and causes of female criminality, and what it represents for African women's resistance to oppression.

Women's Violent Crime in Uganda. More Sinned Against than Sinning

Children's Books

Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza, Lillian

Literature & Fiction

Fountain Books

<p>Presents the substantive laws pertaining to sexual crimes in Uganda, based on the judicial interpretation of the major sexual offences acts created under the Uganda penal code. The text illustrates how out of the colonial inheritance, Uganda has developed its own jurisprudence, which takes into account its particular economic, political and cultural circumstances. Using th important cases which have set precedents. Details the wider social and political implications of legal reforms on this area.</p>

Criminal Law in Uganda. Sexual Assaults and Offences Against Morality (Fountain Series in Law and Business Studies)

History

Africa

Fountain Publishers

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