SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Marxist Feminism, Cesare Lombroso, Marxism
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Marxism looks at social structures not the individual: older assumptions that criminal law represented the collective will of the ppl was rejected. Marxism focuses to narrowly on class relations and places other forms of inequality as secondary (race, gender etc). Crimes typically committed: theft under, fraud, common assaults and bail violations. Repeat offenders addicted to drugs or in sex trade profession. Theoretical and research attention directed toward determining the differences btw criminal and noncriminal women. Cesare lombroso (positivist): factors that make up criminal women (the criminal man) Biological characteristics: primitive, w/ distinctive features: web-like feet. In the female offender, female criminality was described as an inherent tendency of women who had not developed properly into feminine women with moral refinement. Sex and society (book): men and women were fundamentally different. Men for example, had more sexual energy than women. This allowed men to purse women or sexual reason and allowed women, in turn to exchange sexy for domesticity.
