LS227 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anomie, Intersectionality, Deconstruction

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LS227
• Professor: Vanessa Iafolla

Document Summary

One of the primary aims of the feminist engagement with criminology has been to bring women into the view. This has involved a re-evaluation of the accumulated knowledge about criminalized women, the nature of their offending and the claims made about their. In the process, the mainstream criminologists have been forced to consider how their traditional subject matter - men and male criminality - has in uenced their theories and research. Feminist criminologists have argued that understanding women"s involvement in crime requires an awareness of the larger social context, speci cally, the structured inequalities of class, race and gender that condition and constrain lives of criminalized women. Breaking the silence around male violence against women has meant questioning the ways in which societal and legal responses reinforce and reproduce the problem. Conservative approach - the biological differences between men and women result in women"s inferiority and therefore their criminal behaviour.