SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Feminist School Of Criminology, Victimology, Feminist Movement
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Differences between male crimes: (cid:1688)patriarchy(cid:1689) - a society/social system/social structure where has male domination. Regarding the term paper: paper support a thesis, first person accepted, support arguments/claims/approaches with theory/theories. Criminological theories become more general and neutral, not as much gender difference: males commit significant higher rates of crimes than females do, late 1960s, revolutionary period, social constructionism start to take off. Police officers are less likely to arrest females than males. (from a major male police officers" perspectives). They have more opportunities to commit crimes, and they are more free, more motivated and more reasons to commit crimes. e. g. , involving in a public atmosphere: feminist movement is contributed to female crimes. Power-control theory (john hagen 1980s: gender distribution of delinquency is caused by stratification from gender relations within the family, we live in a patriarchy society. We see that patriarchal structure replicated on the level of the family, like the society is structured in a patriarchal manner.
