CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: White-Collar Crime, Property Crime, Gender Inequality

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Gender ad crime (part 1) (week 9 nov. 8) 6 + course kit the new bad girl . Gender and crime (part 1): the female offender. Crimes committed by women and the unique reason they commit crime relative to men. Approximately 80% of all crime are committed by men. Objectives: the image, evidence (profiles), explaining female offending, female offending and violence against women. Nasty girls and unruly women: idea produced through the media, because it is uncommon is attracts media attention, portrayal of female aggression nasty, unruly, bad. Men are described as violent or aggressive: importance of language being used to describe female offenders. Nasty far from neutral, judgemental, deviation from accepted norms of stereotypical women. When acts of violence occur (by women) it is viewed as unnatural/ straying away from ideal/stereotypical women public perceptions: rates of female crime are on the rise. Disappearance of gender gaps, between men and women ex.