CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White-Collar Crime, Cesare Beccaria, Postmodern Feminism
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Origins edwin. h. sutherland coined the term white collar crime . Works edwin. h. sutherland s famous works his book white collar crime . Theory crimes of the working class are insignificant when compared to crimes of the powerful. Origin developed in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. Theory an approach that challenges the male-centeredness of criminology and tradition of malestream criminology fails to observe gender and sex roles. Principle feminists see women as oppressed by both gender inequality and by class inequality ultimately they interpret female crime from a feminist perspective. Liberal feminism discrimination of women in social practices leads to oppression of women. Radical feminism patriarchy describes a power relationship inherent in the structures which cause female subordination and exploitation. Maxist feminism subordination of women is based on capitalist exploitation of their domestic role. Socialist feminism dual system theory recognizes the systems of capitalism and patriarchy to be separable but both influence oppression of women.