SOC225 Lecture Notes - Mitigating Factor, Homicide, Welfare Fraud
11 Mar 2014
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In reality most crime is committed by men. Even when women have committed crime, they are written off as atypical and basically ignored. Concerned with issues of power, the inequitable distribution of social and economic resources, and the differential position of selected groups in society (this has implications for them as either offenders or victims ) Men and women experience victimization in different ways, as well as often committing crimes for very different reasons. Developed out of second wave feminism in the late 1960"s. Concerns expressed towards education and occupation, unequal pay, homophobia, violence towards women. Sees gender as a social construct and argues that social life and social institutions are gendered; ultimately, men are privileged socially, economically, and politically. Our ideas about gender are created by the cultures we live in. How we experience life, and the opportunities in our societies is very different for men and women.
