CRM 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feminist School Of Criminology, Critical Criminology, Marital Rape

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3301
• Professor: Baljit Nagra

Document Summary

They all focus on gender and oppression, share this idea that power dynamics define the social interaction in our society, like marxist and left realism. They also share that they see crime as a social construction and the power dynamics that shape the social construction of crime. They may differ about the causes of gender inequality but they agree that gender inequality exists and needs to be addressed. It emerged in the us and uk in late 1960 and has its roots in the second wave of feminism. When msc did focus on women they focused on stereotypical ideas of female offending, particularity for explaining female offending through a biological and psychological explanations. Women were seen as being mentally unstable or as seen a pathological (that something was wrong with them), seen as having masculine qualities, to hormonal problems. The most part msc ignored female offenders they were seen as anomalies.