WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Masculinity
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Sex and gender difference and criminal behavior (how does it shape it) How sex and gender shape reaction to a crime (are women treated more leniently by the system/ what gender stereotypes are used when judging people/ Why don"t we know which gender had the higher arrest rate for theft in canada in. Connection between being a man and being violent/ looking at the images in the media (change in toy figurines/ the size of guns in movies changes and grown bigger. The important part of masculinity is the performance if it (become ral man trough power and control. Involved in school shooting is violent masculinity (boys killing boy not kid killing kids/ The question: why are boys behaving this way? (blames video games and movies . But that"s to narrow/ it"s a much larger social context/ in the 80s a clear connection between manhood and guns/