Sociology 2266A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Role Theory, Differential Association, Social Control
3 Dec 2016
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Chapter 6 intro to criminology: feminism and criminology. Sexism: attributing to women socially undesirable characteristics that are assumed to be intrinsic characteristics of that sex. Conservative approach: an approach that understands (cid:498)difference(cid:499) between men and women as biologically based sex differences. Women limited intelligence, less sensitive to pain, full of revenge and inferior or unequal to men. jealousy, naturally passive and conservative because were atavisms-further back in evolutionary continuum-and since were already primitive was harder to detect the criminals. Glueck and glueck described delinquent women as a sorry lot. Pollack suggested women(cid:495)s crime was vastly undercounted, (cid:498)masked(cid:499) nature of crime, women are more often instigators than perpetrators of crime, and are inherently deceptive and vengeful, deception stems from ability to fake orgasms, and crime caused by menstruation. Heidensohn critiques these theories: sex and gender equated as one and the same, view of good girl/bad girl duality, and double standard of sexuality between men and women.
