SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexual Assault, Rape Culture, Moral Panic
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Equal offence fallacy: should all offences be treated equally. Equal victim fallacy: not everyone experiences victimization the same way, how people experience their own victimization. Physical violence? (the stitch rule": if you don"t need stiches there is no physical violence so it doesn"t count, ruling logic in the past, women weren"t protected, unless it is really bad it doesn"t count. Fear of crime paradox: the people (women, the elderly) least likely to be victimized by violent street crime are the people most likely to fear it. The rates are wrong, women not reporting or . Tendency of women to connect different experiences of victimization and generalize from them. Male discounting of fear: reason for the paradox. Fear of crime as social construction of victims: fear of crime has 2 components: An emotional component how does the threat of crime affect who i am and how i think of myself: fear of crime is socially constructed on 2 levels:
