Critique of 'malestream' criminology Flashcards
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Women virtually ignored as
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victims and offenders
2
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Theories developed from studies of males are generalised to
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everyone
3
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Criminology is based on the
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‘male experience’
4
Q
Sexist gender stereotypes reproduced as ‘theory’, such as the
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sexualisation of female deviance
5
Q
Critique of positivist…
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theorising/methods
6
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Feminist…
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standpointism
7
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HEIDENSOHN (1996) argued that descriptions of deviance often:
“…define the delinquent as unmistakably and exclusively male…there is no balance of equality in these accounts, female figures are whisked on and off the stage… who have
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no lines to say.”
