CRJ 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Guilty Men, Factor 5, Statutory Rape
15 Oct 2016
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Chapter 5: processing women and girls in the criminal legal system (september 29, 2016) Benevolent: protecting and rewarding women/girls who behave in traditionally feminine or gender-appropriate ways (women are treated lightly) Hostile: opposition and punishment of women/girls who are viewed as usurping masculine roles and power (treated more harshly) Criminal laws and gender discrimination: criminal laws and applications are gendered: Gender-neutral laws no differentiation regarding applicability to women and men. Gender-specific laws apply to one sex or apply differently to the sexes (ex. statutory rape: sex discrimination in criminal laws: Raising statutory rape laws (was not always 18) Sentencing laws and gender discrimination: sentencing guidelines. Women were originally put in reformatories because they were viewed as more malleable and amenable to rehabilitation. Led to indeterminate rehabilitative sentencing of women and determinative sentencing of men * Poor women of color are disproportionately affected. 3 hypotheses of gender discrimination in the cls **: equal treatment hypothesis:
