POLSCI 2MN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Victim Blaming
23 Jun 2017
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New theme: shift away from the social construction of crime to the look more so how the law is applied: flexible applicability of the law. Looking at the key players in this discretionary applicable of the law: including the police (tonight is starting police, thurs-police, ties-prosecutor, thurs-jury) This week is called unjust victims: tonights actor is the victims role within the discretionary applicable of the law, examining victims of sexual assault. Example: a women walking alone at night is related to her fault, creates the ideas that the men are then sexual predators and women are vulnerable: how does the place shift the blame to the victim, 3. Tuesday, may 16, 2017: past drug abuse (character assessment), how you were dancing, how you were irting, whether or not you have a previous criminal record, your sexual history, your clothing etc, 4.
