SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marital Rape, Timecrimes, Carjacking
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Crime and fear of crime (from a gendered perspective) A statement at the start of a piece of writing, video, etc. , alerting the reader or viewer to the fact that it contains potentially distressing material (often used to introduce a description of such content). Might cause psychological distress (dredge up something uncomfortable from the individual"s past) We may do in well, poorly, in this way or that way. How gender is portrayed within institutions and organizations. Related to sex (embodiment) and sexuality (desire) Our guides: emile durkheim and susan brownmiller. Durkheim really gets us to see why/how things become criminalized, decriminalized, and how those things are related to society. Brownmiller is a feminist activist; 2nd wave feminism; how rape came to be criminalized. Durkheim concerned with the function of crime; the function that crime serves. Social solidarity: the social cohesion that binds people together into an interdependent unit other.
