SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - The Nasty Girl, Feminist School Of Criminology, Radical Feminism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stacey Alerie

Document Summary

Only look at boys or girls in passing. Gender is the most strong and consistent correlate to crime and delinquency: males are much more likely to offend than females, gender is strongly positively correlated with crime, with more males, higher the crime rate. To what extent can theories be generalized to women"s offenses. Feminist criminology as branch of critical criminology. Focus on power relations and sources of power rellations: patriarchal system. Women as offenders, women as victims, women in the criminal justice system. Female offenders treated as at an earlier stage of development than men: females were still developing distorted image of deviance. Ignored what actually produces delinquency: every theory before was inadequate, no gender differences between men and women. Much of policy and attitudes towards female criminals assumed neurosis, irrationality, compulsive behaviour, secondary to men: women were more likely to be institutionalized than men. Cultural assumptions of women being institutionalized based on sexual matters: violent girl.