CRIM 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Male Privilege, Economic Inequality, Pink-Collar Worker
21 Apr 2016
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Chapter 19 - caste, class and violent crime: explaining difference in female offending. Whether females are becoming more prone to violence than they were in the past. Increase due to introduction of zero tolerance policies. Rate of violent crimes committed by females may be going up: actual seriousness going down. Underclass black females more prone to engage in violent crimes than white, hispanic and asian underclass females. Employs many of the same factors that james messerschmidt does in his analysis of the relationship between construction of masculinity and male offending: i. e. , race, class and gender, adds new factor: caste. Caste: black females in the us who are members of the underclass, combination of gender and race. More affected by poverty, patriarchy, and racism: than their white, hispanic and asian counterparts. Majority of underemployed caste members work in the pink collar ghetto : service, sales and clerical jobs that provide poverty-level pay. For high-level of violence amongst underclass black females.
