WGST 3812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reasonable Person, Conflict Tactics Scale, Wgst

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

Document Summary

Wgst 3812 victim, mad or bad: gendered violence. *all content belongs to lori a. stinson & where cited in lecture slides* Criminology paid little attention historically: assumed that factors that lead to criminal behaviour = universal & gender neutral. Feminism paid little attention historically: men have been, & still are responsible for most violence, need to focus elsewhere. Women"s violence has been framed as reaction or response to violence in their lives: what little done has focused on most sensationalist, & least frequent. Led to pathologization of women"s experience: mental instability & hormonal imbalance of transgressing hegemonic femininity, denies women conscious agency & right of personhood, backlash effect. Doubling fascination, exacerbating punitive response in media: unruly, aberrant women against reasonable man standard culture, & criminal justice. In canada, the rate of women charged for a violent crime almost quadrupled between. In terms of (immarigeon & chesney-lind et al in shaw, 63: types of violence, reasons for offence.