PSYC 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Childbirth, Cultural Relativism, Female Genital Mutilation
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By the end of today"s class you should be able to: generate global examples of gender-based exploitation, violence, and oppression, discuss global efforts to eliminate gender based exploitation, violence and oppression. What forms of exploitation, violence, and oppression occur within and beyond canada"s borders? (cont. ) Afghanistan: moral crimes today have resulted in 400 women being put in prison. These crimes show women"s effort to leave a situation of battery or trying to leave a forces marriage (they are trying to flee a situation in which they are experiencing intimate partner crimes). The government does not support these convictions; however, they are not taking the appropriate efforts to overturn the ruling putting them in prison. 400 females are currently imprisoned for moral crimes (i. e. , refusing marriage, fleeing spousal assault; bbc news, 2012). The government has laws against acid attacks (the death penalty); however, to date, no one has gotten the death penalty for this crime.