CRM 312 Lecture Notes - Feminist School Of Criminology, Unit, Salem Witch Trials
13 Oct 2013
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For most of history, transgressive, deviant behaviour was explained predominantly by placing blame on supernatural/metaphysical forces until the enlightenment era. These forces took two routes: possession (literally control the body and making them perform the crime, even though this was considered rare) and enticement/temptation (luring someone into committing the crime) Enlightenment thinkers began to think they didn"t exist. Criminology has always been gender-blind (as in, gender has been absent from analysis, simply not factored in) Criminology has literally been man-made: it is male researchers writing about male behaviour and assuming they are writing about the entire population. In the 1970"s 1980"s, the emergence of feminist criminology brought people"s attention to the gender-blindness and the irony in which gender dynamic may be absent from criminology but is very prevalent in society/social structures. Even to this day, modern carnates of the devil are still male -> male physiology.
