SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Crown Attorney, Jackson Katz, Betrayal

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Julie Dowsett

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But women"s violence is abnormal and should be counted on: when a male commits an assault, they are just breaking the law. From a feminist"s perspective, it was troubling: self-defense is fighting against an imminent threat, lavalle was being threatened, but she was not in imminent threat, her defense lawyers claimed she had battered woman"s. Syndrome which is when a woman has been battered a lot she is unable to think straight and she was driven to kill her partner: this case recognized the severity of abuse on females. However, many feminists have critiqued this decision for pathologizing and individualizing violence against women. [allowed her husband to rape her sister: homolka admitted to many crimes but received a light sentence, media painted this as her using her femininity to manipulate the. Female criminals were fallen women: these females would be incarcerated for a loner time xi.