SOC225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Gender Inequality, Shoplifting, Orgasm
15 Mar 2016
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Understands difference between men and women as biologically based sex differences. Women viewed as naturally inferior or unequal to men. Women possessed limited intelligence, less sensitive to pain, full of revenge and jealousy, naturally passive and conservative. Women displayed fewer signs of degeneration because not advanced as far along evolutionary continuum. Criminal women seen as genetically more male than female. *human behaviour based on 4 wishes: adventure, security, response, recognition. These wishes corresponded to features in the ns expressed as biologicial instincts of anger, fear, love and will to gain status and power. Believed need to feel loved accounted women"s criminality, especially for prostitution. Women"s crime vastly undercounted, more likely to be hidden and undetected. Women"s devious nature rooted in physiology: women can fake an orgasm, gave practice of deception. Female crime caused by vengefulness, irritability and depression. *more contemporary version of conservative approach links hormonal changes associated with women"s menstrual cycle to their involvement in crime.
