SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homicide
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Kruttschnitt, candace and kristin carbone-lopez (2006) moving beyond the stereotypes: women"s subjective accounts of their violent crime criminology. What kind of violent act do studies of female crime typically focus on (pg. The kind of violent act studies of female crime typically focus on is homicide. What are kruttschnitt and carbone-lopez"s research objectives (paragraph 2, pg. Kruttschnitt"s and carbone-lopez"s research objectives are to determine how women who used violence toward another person construct their involvement in these violent incidents. They choose to use _narrative analysis_ as their method. This is appropriate, given their research objectives, because they are seeking to find alternative narratives to explain women"s violence toward another person. What are the two dominant stereotypes of women"s violence (pg. 325): only dysfunctional women are capable of engaging in murderous acts against men, black women are more aggressive than white women, and they only engage in violence as a means of self-defence.
