HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Karla Homolka, Love Connection, Paul Bernardo
22 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Gender, class, and ethnicity in three murder cases (hilda blake, brandon, manitoba, 1899) (angelique napolitano, sault ste marie, ont, 1911) (lizzie borden, fall river, mass, 1892) Women commit the minority of crimes (hence why there are very few cases) 1867-1900: 274 murder convictions in canada, only 13 women among these guilty verdicts (about 5%) Men are inherently more violent, and women are socialized differently (some of the debates) Male shivery to exist in the legal system; dominated by men allows to give a benefit of the doubt to women to commit crimes. Hesitant to convict women, especially when the verdict / sentence would be a death sentence. Circumstanced for which women kill are very gendered. Two of them were arrested for numerous sex murders. Poli(cid:272)e did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)u(cid:272)h solid e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:271)ut the (cid:272)ase (cid:449)as too se(cid:396)ious to let the(cid:373) off, so they resorted to a different tactic have them turn on themselves.
