SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Femininity, Shoplifting, Differential Association
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Ge n d e re d vio le n c e. Questions of the day: how is social context of poverty and economic marginalization implicated in the rise of violence among men and women? (poor and violent crime, identify and explain the code of the street. Contextualizing violence: with the rise of urbanization and the decline of the social safety net in many disadvantaged communities. Disadvantaged communities are continually at risk of crime. Success is about accumulating wealth, more money = better life. Not everyone has that ability, we are socialized for the goals but don"t have the means to do it. Bad neighborhoods (impoverished) can breed crime and violence. The more you associate with people who are doing criminal activity, the more like you are to engage in it too. Some people because they don"t fit into the mainstream, they will associate with people who are similar to yourself. Gangs, criminal groups formal social control mechanisms.
