CRIM 3657 Chapter 6: Ch6 Sexuality, Age and Gender Chapter Recap
11 May 2017
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A strong tendency persist to view boys lawbreaking as a part of growing up male at the adage boys just being boys implies: when girls break rules, public and societal responses are not as benig. The media coverage of girls violence respresents a trend toward vilifying women and girls, the consequences are that women are the fastest growing prison population worldwide. Patriarchal culture is based on the ideology of familiar patriarchy, which supports the abuse of women who violate the ideals of male ower and control over women. Media discourses presents female violence as irrational, the product of an indv pathology capable of rearing its huge head over pretty reasons such as slights about sepearance, likeability and inteliignece. News[a[er repots directed attention towars a group called bad girls and subsume an refence to unequal power realtionshi swithin the frame . the bad girl who tried desperately to fit in but could not.
