[CRM2307] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (23 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2307
• Professor: Christine Bruckert

Document Summary

Historical reflections (violence against women has been framed more recently as a social problem and as a problem. It has been recognized and has been embedded in our history for a very long time. We as christians were taught to deiscipline our wives, women are weak, men are strong, priests promited this. In ancient greece they promoted to kill their wives and it was never looked down on. The witch hunts and recently until 1985 you cannot rape your wife in the criminal code of canada. Physical (cid:272)ruelty (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t a grou(cid:374)ds for do(cid:448)ir(cid:272)e si(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1006). Fairly re(cid:272)e(cid:374)tly vaw is per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed as a(cid:374) issue. We still have a lot of racism and arguably our sensitivity towards vaw is regulatory and constrained. Ex: telling women not to walk home at night. Feminism/criminology/sociology (the theory of criminology gives us a sense of the limits of the cjs and solutions that are based on intervention.