SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Promiscuity, Feminist Theory, Social Capital
Document Summary
Early criminology - "biological positivism" - actually did pay some attention to women. Much that followed ignored female offending and female victimisation. Women were more primitive thus less scope for degeneration. Prostitution was the most common form of "regression" for women. Wrote a book on "criminal woman, the prostitute, and the normal woman" Low official rates of female offending disguised the real situation. Heidensohn (1968) - pathbreaking bjs piece the real situation. Women are "manipulative and deceitful" due to passive role in sex. "treating delinquency as normal made female delinquency problematic because it was both statistically unusual and deemed role-inappropriate" "delinquent machiso", male academics, infrequency, primary theoretical concerns. Adler, 1975 sister in crime: as women "liberated" themselves from being "housewives" they became more involved in violence and other forms of crime. Gender and gender relations order social life and social institutions. Based on organising principle of men"s superiority and dominance over women.
