CRIM 1650 Lecture 10: Criminology - Lecture #10

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Advice: grades will be lower than you"re used to, don"t panic. Racer, access to books at universities across canada. Pro ling violence against women: range and variety of offences. Inadequacy of of cial statistics: politics of de nition and measurement. Con ict tactics - the con ict tactics scale designed to broaden the de nition of violence in intimate relationships - men and women are equals in violence 50/50 (neglects nature of the con ict and incidents. ) Men are more likely to use force, women are more likely to throw things. Female victims of spousal violence are 2x likely to me injured as were male victims. Women 3x were more likely to fear for their lives and 2x to have more then 10 violent episodes: prevalence. From victimization surveys (so under reported) - 51% of women have experienced at least 1 incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16.