PSY 622 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sweat Lodge, Schizophrenia, Anger Management
15 Dec 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Factors: 1. individual personality factors impulsivity, 2. interpersonal factor. Poor relationship choices, family factors living in a high-crime neighbourhood: 3. community factors, 4. structural factors. Scholars and correctional agencies have historically paid little attention to female. Sexist and overly focused on biology and sexuality. Either ignored female offenders or assumed that explanations of male crime would apply to females: post-lombroso, simon (1975), adler (1975) Prevalence and nature of female perpetrated crime: gender dynamics. Females commit less crime, less violence, less serious crimes. Approximately 20% accused of criminal code offences in canada were female. More likely to murder intimate partner in response to. Mainly prostitution: different motivations domestic violence, rarely women go to extreme violence. Mother of 2 stabbed 3 men in heart. Made attempts on loves of 2 strangers. Why (cid:1) female centered theories feminist pathway research. Man hater: use of qualitative narrative interviews. Girls forced into streets and further victimized: focus on one dimensional pathway.
