WGST 3812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Burning Times, Feminist School Of Criminology, Cesare Lombroso

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 3812
• Professor: Lori Stinson

Document Summary

Wgst 3812 theoretical foundations: women, criminalization, feminism & criminology. *all content belongs to lori a. stinson & where cited in lecture slides* Women = fastest growing segment of prison population in western industrialized nations. Dekeseredy (31): violence & crime on & off street = gendered; the product of men . Most criminological theories & popular perceptions = gender neutral or gender blind : sexist, racist, heteronormative theories (i. e. jamaican women) Media portrayals of women"s crime & criminality don"t match #s: 12% of all serial killers. Condition of criminalized women"s lives: systemic nature of violence, poverty & racism, political silence around their treatment. History of women"s imprisonment = mixture of neglect, out-right barbarism, and well- meaning paternalism : burning times" 50 000 100 000. 14th 18th century (black death to most 1550-1560) 1690: salem, 1745: france discontinues, 1775: germany stopped. 1830: church ceased execution of witches in south america.