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A 5 page analysis of Women Who Kill by Ann Jones, whose premise is that patriarchal conditions in society provide the root cause for female criminal activity. The writer also consults It's a Crime: women and justice edited by Roslyn Muraskin and Ted Alleman, which serves to substantiate Jones' conclusions. No additional sources cited.
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overlooked. This question is: why the behavior in question was, or is, considered to be criminal? "Who labeled that behavior a crime, and why" (Jones 11). In this book, Jones
asks a quantity of questions that have been avoided by male experts in this field, "Why is it a crime for a girl to run away from home?", "Why is
a black womans larceny a white womans kleptomania?", "Why is it a crime to be raped by your father?" (Jones 11). By examining history, going back to colonial
days, and then proceeding to the present, Jones concludes that the topic of female criminal behavior is intrinsically tied to the place that women have held in American society. She
also demonstrates that many of the factors that caused female criminal activity in the past are still at work in the twentieth century. The basic thesis of Jones work
is that the women who have killed are simply coping with the same problems that "thousands of women cope with in more peaceable ways from day to day" (Jones 14).
This premise has been substantiated by the work of Muraskin and Alleman, who also see female criminal activity as behavior that has to be viewed within its historical context
in order to be fully understood. For example, rather than viewing the Salem Witch Trials as an aberration, as is common among most male scholars, the essay on this topic
in the Muraskin and Allemans text that this traditional view is inaccurate (52). This essay argues that this 17th century persecution of innocent women was motivated by patriarchal fears.
Jones takes a similar stance and she argues that there is still a tendency in modern day society to look for a "simple scapegoat" rather then try to understand the
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