SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Shoplifting, Aggravated Sexual Assault, General Social Survey

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Emily - women should stop having sex with men for a good 20 years. All heterosexual sex is a form of sexual assault: liberal feminism. Sees the consequences of capitalism to create equality among the sexes. Liberation thesis (daly and chesney-lind: late 1960s and 70s crime in women increased, more liberated women were, women are more likely for shoplifting or prostitution. Class and family structure played a big role in the delinquency of young females: tradition/patriarchal. More of a working class type family. Father breadwinner, mother stays at home. Socialized to live the way their mothers do. Chart the ways that every day living created a structure of. The way you live your life can set you up to come into contact opportunities with criminals. Set us up for crime our work and our leisure. Doesn"t matter what the motivation is, they are just willing to commit a crime given the opportunity. Can be an object or a person.