CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Feminist School Of Criminology, Critical Criminology, Postcolonialism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Carlos Ponce

Document Summary

One social group seeks to exercise and maintain dominance over others. Society and laws rooted in shared values and beliefs. The use of the law and cjs in the struggle between social groups. Moves away from structural focus and concentrates on discourse. Social roots of crime and the need to propose practical solutions to crime problems. State treatment of offenders and the reconciliation between offenders, victims, and communities. Poor marginalized and working class are oppressed through laws and cjs. Society is not built on consensus but, rather, on class conflict. Gender inequality based on female oppression created/sustained by social institutions. Criminology is patriarchal in nature, disregarding female issues by by social institutions. Criminology is patriarchal in nature, disregarding female issues by treating women same as men. Physical and sexual abuse experienced by female offenders by female offenders and "battered woman syndrome" are examples of topics addressed by feminist criminologists.