THE EFFECTS OF GENDER ON PHYSICAL CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT SENTENCING IN MARYLAND CIRCUIT COURTS

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dc.contributor.advisorSimpson, Sallyen_US
dc.contributor.authorLafferty, Jennifer Margaret Bewtonen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-21T05:30:13Z
dc.date.available2019-06-21T05:30:13Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractResearchers have identified child abuse as a major social problem in the United States, yet research on physical child abuse and neglect sentencing is limited. Prior to this study, sentencing research has mostly overlooked physical child abuse and neglect as a distinct crime. As physical child abuse and neglect are so contrary to traditional notions of femininity, studying the effects of gender on sentencing for these narrowly defined crimes presents an opportunity to focus on females as countertypes. The findings here imply that the effects of being female (a countertype) increases for the most serious crime, first degree child abuse, in both the decision to incarcerate and on the sentence length.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/moxm-wukq
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22072
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCriminologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGenderen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSentencingen_US
dc.titleTHE EFFECTS OF GENDER ON PHYSICAL CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT SENTENCING IN MARYLAND CIRCUIT COURTSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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