SOCL 3501 Chapter : S4463sp14 Syllabus Edited
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Office hours: tuesdays 9:30-10:30 pm (and by appt) Courses titled gender and crime often end up being courses on women and crime. This is highly appropriate, since most criminological research and theory are devoted to male offenders. However, the gender gap in offending merits explanation. And that cannot be done by focusing totally on women. We will approach the study of gender and crime through a lens of intersectionalities. an intersectional approach reveals how status structures sociologists commonly study (such as race and ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality) never occur alone. In other words, no one is just a woman, just a white person, just a poor person, or just a heterosexual person. People occupy positions in different social categories simultaneously. It is consequently very important, when investigating social phenomena, to pay attention to the diversity of experiences within categories that are commonly thought of as homogeneous female, black, homosexual, etc.
