Sociology 3358F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Street Prostitution, Intimate Partner Violence, Physical Abuse

111 views33 pages

Document Summary

She was a prostitute and a majority of her victims" were johns: she was also highly marginalized and had a horrible background. Feminist engagement with criminology : mainstream is malestream", anomie, differential association, control theory, labelling theory, new criminology, 60% of women in crime are charged with prostitution, about 19% of all crimes committed in canada are committed by women. Lombroso and born criminals: you are literally born a criminal and your features show if you are or not, women much less likely to commit crimes than men because of special biological traits. If women committed a crime, she was seen as a monster": pollack and masked nature. Dual-focus" theory: crimes involve sex, cunning or deceit, results of passive role in sex, the biological cause and the cause reactions to female crime, women were better than men at hiding there crime.