ATS1281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Left Realism, Control Theory, Feminist Theory
8 Aug 2018
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Gender vs. sex - they"re not synonymous concepts. * focuses on sex differences as a basis to understand why women commit crime. * provides useful point of departure of how putting gender into the equation provides a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of women"s offending and victimisation + understanding why men commit crime as well. Foundation of feminist criminology (and indeed, feminist theory) is distinction between gender" and sex". --> accepted by mainstream criminologists today, most people recognize that sex is different from gender. --> assigned to you at birth, often on the basis of your physical characteristics. --> hence, people act upon their gender depending on their social and cultural circumstances. Gender as a social construct a set of historically and ore. Gender as a social construct a set of historically and culturally produced characteristics and attributes assigned to the sexes.
