SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Relational Aggression, Blackboard, Homicide
Key Takeaways from last class
-‘Malestream’ criminological theories were designed by men about men, these have their issues,
they are not entirely irrelevant
-These theories have been applied to women’s offending and there has been some success
-feminist scholars say we need to go beyond then just adding women to these theories but we
need more gender specific theories
-gender specific theories have their limits, one limit is that one they give gender primacy and
don't always take in race and class and how that effects women, they tend not to think of
women as active agents in their own lives, they think women are guided from their past
experiences of sentencing and male guidance
-important to know that we can’t just decide that men and women offenders are completely
similar or completely different
Term Paper Outline
-read the assignment guidelines for the actual term paper before starting this outline
-select an article from a list on blackboard
-describe the main issues in the article that you’ll address in the main paper
-state your position you’ll be taking
-two articles from the reading list and find two peer reviewed articles on your own
** Open ended format for the outline **
-Full sentences, paragraphs or Topic sentences with bullet point sentences
What do we Know? About the lives of women offenders vs men offenders
Women Offenders
Victimized
Deviating feminine norms
mental health
Suffered abuse
poverty (grew up poor)
Addiction
Accessory to a crime
Men Offenders
Aggressors
Dominant
Serial Killers
Violent
Financial responsibility (Strain)
Went to Jail more then once
Insecure about their masculinity
Oppressed
Improve status through crime
Differential Socialization: Aggression (RAMAN)
-Boys learn to resolve conflict through physical aggression, they use direct confrontation, they
use physical aggression to establish dominance
-girls are persuaded not to use physical aggression but use relational aggression, relational
violence is harming others through gossip, rumours, making one member feel out of a group
and verbal manipulation
