• E4J University Module Series: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Module 9: Gender in the Criminal Justice System

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Key terms
  • Topic 1 - Gender-based discrimination and women in conflict with the law
  • Topic 2 - The vulnerabilities of girls in conflict with the law
  • Topic 3 - Discrimination and violence against individuals that identify as, or are perceived to be, LGBTI
  • Topic 4 - Gender diversity in the criminal justice workforce
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• Guidelines to develop a stand-alone course

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• First published in July 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Additional teaching tools

 

This section includes links to relevant teaching aides such as PowerPoint slides and video material that could help the lecturer teach the issues and material covered by the Module. The slides and other resources can be adapted by lecturers.

PowerPoint slides

PowerPoint Presentation for Module 9

 

Video materials

• Tracey Ullman's Show (2017), BBC. "What were you wearing?" (1:54 minutes).
• Teresa Hodge (2006): "We have made coming home from prison entirely too hard" TEDx Talks. (11:45 minutes).
• SBS Television: Beyond the Bars: Staying Alive on the Outside. (12:30 minutes).
• The Stories of Women Incarcerated for Drug Related Crimes (2018). Produced by the Washington Office on Latin American and Equis: Justicia para las mujeres. (7:24 minutes).
• Video Profiles: The Human Cost of the Drug War (2017). A range of videos in which women in Latin America share their stories about coming into conflict with the law for drug related crimes. Produced by the Washington Office on Latin American and Equis: Justicia para las mujeres. (Various films, each of approximately 5-6 minutes in duration).
• United Nations Free and Equal Campaign 'It's time': Hate and stigma affect millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people around the world. The United Nations Free & Equal campaign is calling for change. (1:08 minutes).
• United Nations Free and Equal Campaign (2013): 'The History of LGBT Rights at the UN'. (2:51 minutes).

 

Audio Material

• Privacy International's Gender and Privacy Series: Transgender persons and privacy rights in the Philippines. (29:48 minutes)

 

Legal Resources

Feminist Legal Judgements

This project, hosted by The University of Kent, and Durham University, in the United Kingdom, comprises the rewriting of legal judgments from a gender sensitive and/or feminist point of view, to illustrate that discrimination on the grounds of gender is not intrinsic to the writing of legal judgments, or the deciding of legal cases. Lecturers may choose to encourage students to browse the cases, (and the feminist commentaries) in the category of Criminal Law and Evidence. Key issues that emerge here are: the gendered differences in the application of the defence of provocation, an issue touched on Topic 1 of this Module; and the contentious instances in which sexual history evidence is admitted (an issue that is explored in further detail in Module 10 on Violence against Women and Girls of the E4J University Module Series on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice).

European Court of Human Rights Cases: Compilation on gender related issues in the criminal justice sector including on

• Sexual orientation
• Homosexuality 
• Gender identity

 

Additional online courses

• UNODC E-Learning Course titled Alternatives to Imprisonment for Women Offenders
• Penal Reform International (2013 ) titled Women in detention: Putting the UN Bangkok Rules into Practice .
• UN Women, UNODC, UNDP, OHCHR titled Practitioners Toolkit on Women's Access to Justice Programming. Specifically, please see Module 4 on Women in Conflict with the Law.

 

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