SACR 4650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victorian Literature, Tim Newburn, Criminology

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: SACR 4650
• Professor: Peter Fitzgerald

Document Summary

Women and white-collared crime: women"s business activity during the victorian period, financial crime, women as victims, domestic fiction/ victorian literature, critique. Question: do women still face financial oppression, such as males controlling their banking accounts, or handling money compared to how it was in the victorian era. (compare wage discrepancies as well) Female crime trends from 1960-1995: uniform crime report survey (ucr, liberation thesis, economic adversity thesis, explaining trends in female crime rates, criminal underworld, opportunities for female crime, drug dependency/addiction, application to select crimes, dui, larceny-theft. Gender, class & paterns of social control in toronto, 1859-1995. Explaining male criminal behavior vs. female criminal behavior: biological, social, gender differences vs. Emergence of first wave feminism : history of first wave feminism, arguments & legislation changes. Why men are victims: the failure of victimology: study of victims, issue of power, hegemonic masculinity. A century of crime in toronto: gender, class, and patterns of social control, 1859 to 1955. criminology 28(4): 567-599.