WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Middle White, Essentialism, Spermatozoon
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The kinds of crimes women engage in are different then men. A social construction perspective on women"s involvement in crime: the female emancipation or liberation hypothesis. The women"s movement was about challenging claims/ they critiqued essentialist views/ a lot of the inequalities tend to be viewed as a function of sex difference/ so say that no! Adler: not first to argue that sex difference in crime is influenced in crime. Adler thesis was largely rejected, but the reasoning behind it still had appeal. Her work is still important (she moved theorist away from essentialist views) Prior to the 1960, most theories of women"s involvement in crime were essentialist in nature. Most argued that women engaged less then man because of abnormal, and the causes were distinctive then the reason men commit crime. Chapter by pizzini: its not female emancipation influencing the involvement of female sin organized crime. Links women involvement with things such as market, gender.