CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Conflict Tactics Scale, Juvenile Delinquency, Acquaintance Rape

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

Document Summary

Gender and crime ii: violence against women (cont) Profiling violence against women (week 10 nov. 15) Based largely on physical harm/violence: however, emotional and psychological violence can be equally as traumatizing. Conflict tactics scale: designed to broaden the definition in what gets included in the discussion of violence within intimate relationships, contains indicators of conflict between interpersonal relationships, men and women are equals in violence. Men and women engage in violence in interpersonal relationships equally. Men are more likely to use physical force whereas women are more likely to throw things. Female victims of spousal violence, are twice as likely to be injured than a male victim: consequential violence. Women are three times more likely to fear for their lives and experience violent episodes. Women under 25 as well as women living in common law relationships (domestic violence/spousal assault) Fallacy of stranger danger : belief that the most common offender of physical and sexual assault are strangers.