SOCI 2P61 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Class Conflict, Capitalism, Robert James Carlson

• School: Brock University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2P61
• Professor: Dennis Wall

Document Summary

Criminology has traditionally been male-centered: males commit a majority of crimes. Example: gender ratio of crime the focus is on crime and gender where the emphasis is on gender, when they focus on gender and crime they are looking at the gender ratio of crime. Move women and an analysis of gender to the centre of criminological inquiry. Feminist research tends to focus on: its not biological, we want to see the sociological differences. A great deal of your behavior is based on socialization. All important positions in the drug dealing industry are for men) Attempts to answer questions concerning why they did it . Like gendered crime, gendered pathways also tries to answer questions of why they did it . Gendered lives examines general life course trajectories that mayor may not include lawbreaking. How social forces, like the imbalance between male and female power, lead to criminal behavior among women.