CC102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Healing Lodge, Karla Homolka, Sexual Assault
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Lombroso: women are less likely to commit crimes than men, due to their natural biological passivity. If women are criminal, it is because they are less evolved and more like men: so evil that their evilness overcomes their natural passivity. Pollock: women offend in similar fashion to men same frequency, women are better able to conceal their crimes because they are by nature more deceptive. Alder: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s e(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ipatio(cid:374) li(cid:271)e(cid:396)atio(cid:374) thesis, as women become more liberated they become more like men and commit like men. Gender is not a natural fact but a complex social, historical and cultural product. Gender and gender relations order and define our social life and social institutions. Systems of k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge (cid:396)efle(cid:272)t (cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s of the (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al a(cid:374)d so(cid:272)ial (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld: knowledge is a gendered production. Feminist criminology argues that women should be the center of criminological inquiry about female offenders: not add women and stir approach.
