ATS1281 Study Guide - Final Guide: Moral Panic, Feminist School Of Criminology, Informal Social Control
30 Jul 2018
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The growing visibility of women as professional criminologists and as the object of criminological study is largely the result of the feminist movement that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. In part, feminist criminology was a reaction to pre-existing ways of (cid:858)doi(cid:374)g(cid:859) (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)i(cid:374)olog(cid:455) (heidensohn) Fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)ist s(cid:272)holarship(cid:859)s great proje(cid:272)t - a product of the re-emergence of feminism from the late. Attempt to: put questions of gender firmly at the centre of criminology. Highlight concerns around female offenders and women"s victimisation. Conceptual distinction - gender vs sex (not synonymous: foundation of feminist criminology; accepted today. Sex = biological classification (male, female, intersex - generally assigned at birth on basis of physical characterises) Gender = regarded to be socially constructed --> characteristics associated with being a "man" Early criminology often categorised as (cid:858)(cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al positi(cid:448)is(cid:373)(cid:859) (focusing on sex rather than gender) unusual in that it did actually pay some attention to women (unlike much of what followed in criminology)
