CRIM 3655 Lecture Notes - Castle Doctrine, Pater Familias, Feminist School Of Criminology

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 3655
• Professor: James Sheptycki

Document Summary

Policing and the private order of the family. The policing of family violence and domestic violence. Most popular way of killing your spouse in canada seems to be stabbing them with a knife: women tend to do it more often than men. Downward trend regarding firearm-related homicides these statistics show that violence in family is a significant public policy issue. It seems to be a significant public policy issues for feminist criminology or criminologists as w hole because of a tendency of male violence to exceed measured amount of female violence both in terms of prevalence and seriousness. Paterfamilias: in ancient roman law, the pater was the father of the family". He had the duty to maintain the moral propriety and well-being of his household. In this, he was given authority over and responsibility for the conduct of household. This castle doctrine comes from the paterfamilias the man in his castle is the sovereign under his own roof.