SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Welfare Fraud, Street Prostitution, Legal Aid
Document Summary
Difference matters- why do children behave differently based on their gender. Assume normative standards that reflect power relations. Sex is completely biological but gender is social. It is universally target to women (females are always thought as the victim) Men are always thought as the perpetrator. Men are thought to have deserved abuse or they are able to deal with it (men are not victims) Addario reading: legal aid and other needs of women accused. The types of crime that females commit show their poverty (theft, fraud and prostitution) Almost always a female offender has been a victim in the past. Women face more poverty than men in all aspects (this is higher for immigrated and aboriginal women) Women commit less crime than men and if they do commit crime, it is less likely to be violent. Women mostly commit theft under ,000, level 1 assault, fraud and those related to drugs.
