CRIM 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Cesare Lombroso, Assault, Homicide

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 103
• Professor: Jennifer Wong

Document Summary

First person to study criminal behaviour using scienti c method. Female offender doesn"t include girls 11 years and under. Why do we care: girls, women and correctional sanctions. Female youth has consistently accounted for approx 23% of convicted youth offences: prevalence and nautre of female-perpetrated crime. Females more likely than men to have murdered intimate partner or family member. Female- more likely to murder in response to domestic violence: male- more likely to murder out of jealousy, in delity, desertion and control. Less likely than men to have murdered a stranger- but when it did happen, similar motivations to males (vindication/ attempt to restore personal integrity: non-violent crime. Females commit property crime out of economic necessity: males commit property crime as means of adventure and status enhancement. Feminist scholars have criticized early theories that predate the 1950s for being sexist and inappropriately focused on female sexuality, biology and psychology while male offending was focused on factors out of offender"s control.