SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Feminist Theory, Marxist Feminism, Welfare Fraud

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Alexander Shvarts

Document Summary

Women"s issues and their relations to crime and feminist theories. The need for a feminist perspective on crime. As a result, criminologists have formulated their theories to account for only male crime and delinquency. > take into account class, race, gender, social power: criminalized women: tend to be young, poor, undereducated, and unskilled. Most likely to be involved in property crimes. Johnson and rodgers (1993, 98): rapid increase in female-headed households and the stresses associated with poverty, greater numbers of women are being charged with shoplifting, cheque forging, and welfare fraud. Feminism and law in canada: feminist criminologists: differ on the issue of whether criminal law should be extended or enlarged to take into account gender issues or whether this will further reinforce the law"s support for patriarchal relations. They also differ on the issue of whether arrested women are to be seen as criminals, offenders, or victims who have become criminalized.