SOC 3490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sexual Assault, Corporate Crime, Equal Pay For Equal Work
3 Mar 2017
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Sexual harassment, types of crimes specific to women (infanticide: male/female differences, rates of law breaking. Pathways from youth to adult offending: differences between male and females, ex. P(cid:396)o(cid:271)a(cid:271)l(cid:455) (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:396)o(cid:271) a (cid:271)a(cid:374)k, (cid:271)ut (cid:373)a(cid:455) e(cid:374)gage i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:396)po(cid:396)ate (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)e. Transgender/sex change surgery would have been unheard of decades ago. How does the law deal with gender-based crime: typically in situations with a family and in poverty, gender and the law. Crime becomes a way that social roles are enacted: cultural scripts of how men/women supposed to behave. Men: acts of violence (rape, robbery: power, money, dominance = (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g a (cid:858)(cid:396)eal(cid:859) (cid:373)a(cid:374) Female offenders are often victims prior to the crime: abuse from various circumstances. Feminists argue female offenders often come from the fringe of society. Marginalized by race, gender, poverty, uneducated: especially aboriginal women. Prior exposure to abuse and addictions: ex. Many crimes are about power (economic, social, gender: ex.
