CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Post-Structuralism, Environmental Movement, Edwin Sutherland
14 Mar 2017
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Seen as weak, submissive and dependent therefore in need of protection. Emotionality: interpretation of her behaviour as mentally abnormal or unstable. Early crim: criminality in women as biological or psychological charactereistics of indv . No correlation between female crime and body type. Concluded women themselves have not made an evolutionary step. Italian school- female criminals are more dangerous since they blend in with society. Blaming feminist movement not only for the increase of crime but leading to the undoing of society. As women become emancipated and thus more like men, they will exhibit behaviour, including criminal, similar to men. Relies on stereotypes of women as evil" manipulative etc. Through sex women are able to acquire confidence in their ability to deceive men. Anger towards men because they don"t menstruate form of protest of social inequality. Kramer: medicalization and syndromization refers to a process in which women"s social conduct is explained or excused in medical or psychological terms.
