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2 Women & Crim. Just. 1 (1990-1991)

handle is hein.journals/wwcj2 and id is 1 raw text is: EDI TORIAL The articles and book reviews in this issue discuss historic atti- tudes towards females which continue to adversely affect women and girls, stereotypical sex roles females have been expected to assume, and efforts of church and state to insure that women and girls adhere to appropriate behavior. Mary Elizabeth Perry's histori- cal study of the development of women's prisons in seventeenth century Spain demonstrates the significance of gender beliefs in establishing public policy and prisons for recalcitrant women. Us- ing seventeenth century Spanish references, she presents the social attitudes and values regarding women which led church and state to conclude that public order required that women be controlled, disci- plined and, if need be, imprisoned as a prevention against unbridled sexuality. Judith Scheffler provides examples of women's prison writings from the French Revolution to the late 1970s. She explains why Ethel Rosenberg's comments about herself and criticisms about injustice illustrate women's prison writings at a transitional point. She also discusses the hostile reactions of decision makers to a woman who failed to conform to expected behavior. Social scien- tists and social workers, according to Anne Campbell, have contrib- uted to the persistence of sex-role stereotypes by ignoring the influ- ence of peer groups on girls. She calls for future studies to examine Women & Criminal Justice, Vol. 2(1) 1990 © 1990 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. /