WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Constructionism, Criminology, Castration Anxiety
5 Feb 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
A social constructionist perspective on women s involvement in crime: the female emancipation or liberation hypothesis. Prior to the 1960s, most theories of women s involvement in crime were essentialist in nature. The liberation hypothesis introduced a social constructionist perspective in contrast to the prevailing definitions of female crime that were essentialist in nature. Connections between the ideas behind the female emancipation hypothesis and today s readings. Peterson & panfil on gender and street gangs. Perspectives on female crime prior to 1960"s. Up until late 60s or 70s most of the people who studied crime an criminals ignored rimes by women. When they did pay attention to female crime they assumed that they did so little crime because of sex differences located in the work of ceasar lombroso. Some would argue he was the first scientific criminologists. Women are less likely to commit crime than men because of innate biological and psychological differences from men.
