CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Slut, Stranger Danger, Warini

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

Document Summary

Gender and crime ii the female offender. Power, domination and control as assault captures this. Sexual violence extends far beyond to other forms of sexual violence. [i. e. threatening phone calls, harassment, etc. : the inadequacy of official statistics. Accurate truth; violence against women is chronically under reported. Victimization surveys; only 30% of white assaults and 10% of sexual assaults are reported to the police. A reason to why assaults aren"t reported is because of (1) fear, (2) doubting that the police wont be able to help, and (3) the problem of double victimization: politics of definition and measurement. The definition of violence against women in the criminal code is essentially assault and sexual assault (crimes with a physical component) Psychological and emotional abuse (impact of verbal threats, manipulation, possessiveness, putting down emotionally and self esteem, etc. ) Difficulties of psychological and emotional abuse in the definition of violence against women; (1) how to measure these types of crime.