CRM 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marital Rape, Intersectionality, Social Stratification
17 Feb 2017
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Feminist criminology emerged during the second wave of feminism in the late 1960s. It consists of a set of theories about women"s oppression and a set of strategies for change. They all share the idea that gender inequality exists and that it should be addressed. Similarly to other critical criminologists, they look at power dynamics and how they shape our society, and they look at social construction of crime. Gender blindness which may be described as the undue focus on a male-centered view of the world and the pursuit of male-centered criminology. A failure to address the glaring gender gap in offending that exists because men commit significantly more crimes than women. When they focused on women, they used biological or psychological reasoning to explain criminal behaviour. Because of this, their experiences were not connected to larger structures of gender, race, and class.
