SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karla Homolka, Paul Bernardo

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8 Feb 2016
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He would never do anything like that to any woman. He did not need to rape women; he always had lots of girlfriends it just did not seem possible that such a well-educated, well-adjusted congenial young man like paul bernardo could be responsible for such horrible crimes. Paul bernardo"s portrayal of his masculinity/gender helped him to convince the police that he wasn"t the man they were looking for. On the other hand, karla homolka was able to use her gender as a woman to seem as this innocent, hapless victim who wasn"t fully responsible because of battered woman syndrome. Gender matters for crimes in ways that we might not think. Gender, masculinity and femininity are performed throughout crime and justice. How sentences are given out, how someone is treated, etc. Gain fluency in core concepts in criminology and criminal justice. Step 1: identifying the empirical evidence presented in the text.

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