Bias Against women

• The Criminal Justice system often has a double standard about men and women
• Sharpe analysed 55 youth work records and found 7 out of 11 girls were referred because of being sexually active compared to none of the 44 boys
• Sharpe found that perceptions of female defendant characteristics were based upon stereotypical gender roles
• Carlen argued that women are jailed less for the seriousness of crimes but more according to perception of the women as wives, mothers and daughters
• Smart claims women who are seen as particularly deviant become labelled as evil and stigmatised by the Criminal Justice System
• Edwards study of the Magistrates Court in Manchester found the trial of women was limited to the extent of which their crime deviated from 'appropriate female behaviour'
• Women also face victim shaming remarks in the court
• Walklate found that in sexual assault trials that the man was on on trial but it seemed the victim seemed to be