SOC 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pepper Spray, Victimology, Hegemonic Masculinity
Document Summary
Doing gender - gendered expectations encourage women"s passivity and men"s aggression. Hegemonic masculinity - violence is a means by which men can demonstrate their masculine identity. Sexual scripts - unwritten rules : sexually aggressive male initiators pursue sexually passive/compliant female gatekeepers. The sexual scripts that we see in media and porn show aggressiveness. Feminist and intersectional perspectivse - institutional and structural origins of violence (e. g. institutional sexism/racism) Ucr (uniform crime report) - crimes witnessed by or reported to u. s. law enforcement. Problem: reporting is voluntary, strictly numbers, often misclassified or not classified at all. Only about 55% of serious violent crimes are reported. Ncvs and nvaw - survey on recent experiences with crime. Has anyone attacked or threatened you in any of these ways ? . Shows that a lot of crime is not reported to police. 72% of murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 94% of fictims are women. Women and men have been victims of ipv.
