Open AccessThe Untold Truth about Crimes Committed by Women
Author(s) -
Marie-Rose Zalzal
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.252
Subject(s) - romanian , law , criminology , psychology , political science , philosophy , linguistics
A truck carrying prisoners pulled into the courtyard of the Judicial Palace and three women stepped out. My friend and I looked at them and immediately concluded, judging from their appearance, that one was Lebanese, one Romanian and the other Sri Lankan. We continued our guessing game and assumed that the Lebanese woman must have been arrested for drugs, the Romanian for prostitution, and the Sri Lankan for theft. All of a sudden, we realized that we were biased in our assumptions, given that we had drawn our conclusions from first impressions.