CRM 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6 to 15: Social Class, Penang Island, Superficial Charm
28 Mar 2019
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Theories of women"s crime [156: the conservative approach [156, liberal approach [159, the mainstream theories of crime [160, the generalizability problem [162, the gender-ratio problem [162, the women"s liberation thesis [163, criminalized women [164] Blurred boundaries : women as victims and offenders [177] One of the primary aims of the feminist engagement with criminology has been to bring women into view. This has involved a re-evaluation of the accumulated knowledge about criminalized women, the nature of their offending, and the claims made about their differences from males. In the process, mainstream criminologists have been forced to consider how their traditional subject matter -men and male criminality- has influenced their theories and research. Feminist criminologists have argued that understanding women"s involvement in crime requires an awareness of the larger social context, specifically the structured inequalities of class, race, and gender that condition and constrain the lives of criminalized women.
