SOC 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Suicidal Ideation, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Parenting Styles

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2010
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Explaining crime: general theories and the life course perspective. Biological sex and sexual orientation is a biological construct. Gender identity and expression is a social construction. Teenaged boys are freer to deviate than teenaged girls. Amount of power a parent has in the workplace in uences their control over their teenaged children. Egalitarian households both parents work, boys and girls are given he sam amount of supervision, delinquency rates are even between girls and boys. Is a clear example of feminism on cjs. Gender roles is being re ected in the women"s involvement in the cjs, women will be come more involved in criminal behaviour since they are considered equal. Increased awareness that women are handled differently from men throughout the cjs. The number of aboriginal women in canadian prison is exceeding. Risk assessments, pretrial, identify your likely hood to be released back into the community, women have different in uences and may commit crimes for different reasons.