Final exam

Question 1

Administration of gender

Answer 1

Gender is a category of government:
- Gender is related to policy decisions and distribution of resources.
- Think Trans women in jails.
- A basic mode of surveillance of population.

Question 2

Surveillance of Population

Answer 2

Defining “healthy”, ensures productivity, defines membership.

Question 3

Anti-trans laws

Answer 3

Framed as protection of youth from tans ideologies that harm the health of children, attacks on gender affirming care.

Question 4

Structured insecurity

Answer 4

Access to needed medical therapies consistently denied.
- Prisons, law, medical that deny access and discipline bodies to fit cisgender norms.

Question 5

Liberal right framework

Answer 5

Visibility and inclusion: overcome restrictions to allow fill representation, citizenship, membership.

Question 6

Perpetrator-victim dyad

Answer 6

this dyad simplifies the relationship between the two rather than understanding the perpetrator or understand that in most cases they’ve been victims as well. A lot of people are acting out of trauma.

Question 7

Anti-discrimination laws

Answer 7

the idea that it crime cannot be addressed in forms of basic inequality, but can only address those things that occur as the result of individual actions. This is were “reverse-racism” takes identity.

Question 8

Perfect plaintiff’s

Answer 8

People who are white with high-level jobs and lawful immigration status, leaving the most vulnerable open to continued discrimination.
- Your “status” matters, white women compared to a coloured women.

Question 9

Hate crime legislation

Answer 9

Increasing punishment for crimes motivated by hate for a group of people. Punishment does not provide safety, just violence.
-Spade: no deterrent effect and strengths/legitimatizes the punishment system that targets those it purports to protect.

Question 10

Incel

Answer 10

Where a group of men think they are owed things from women such as sex, and when they don’t get it they become violent.

Question 11

Misogyny

Question 12

Social ecological model

Answer 12

Develop attentiveness to how risk factors for violence operate at different levels.
- Violence is normative and embedded in the foundations of the nations.
-We perpetuate DV as if it is an anomaly of our “peaceful” society.

Question 13

Family violence

Answer 13

intimate partner violence, as well as elder abuse and child abuse

Question 14

Gender-based violence

Answer 14

violence related to a person’s gender and is inclusive of transgender.
- The problem with this is that it lumps together hate crimes of strangers with forms of family violence. Does not help us understand how love and violence can coexist in the same space.

Question 15

Femicide

Answer 15

Many people advocate for calling homicides of women as causalities of patriarchal violence. This fails to account for men’s involvement in violence outside the home. Men are more likely victims of homicide.

Question 16

Intimate terrorist/coercive partner

Answer 16

Intimate terrorist: survivor is not free to leave, and has no access to money that they would provide them with autonomy. Also violence towards those turning to shelters, ERs and law enforcement.
Coercive partner: possessiveness over someone. Includes stalking and is the most likely to result in homicide.

Question 17

Carceral feminism/legal feminism

Answer 17

Where the state is called upon to protect from patriarchal violence:
- policing, prosecution, punishment.

Question 18

Patriarchal objectification

Answer 18

the reduction of a person to the status of a thing or commodity.

Question 19

Johnson’s typology

Answer 19

4 different kinds of domestic violence:
-Intimate terrorism/Coercive Control
-Situational Couple Violence
-Violent Resistance
-Mutual Violent Control

Question 20

Situational couple violence

Answer 20

Violent relationships where power imbalance are not severe and where both partners can engage in “boundary crossing or aggressive behaviour”

Question 21

Violence resistance

Answer 21

use of violence against an intimate terrorist

Question 22

Mutual Violence control

Answer 22

found in high conflict relationships where bojh parties have trauma histories, addiction issues, and/or attachment wounds

Question 23

Coverture and the nuclear family

Answer 23

Converture: A system of gender subordination brought over from Britain that subordinated the wife to the husband. Women become chattel property.

Question 24

Setter colonialism

Answer 24

Early year of settlement in Canada

Question 25

Mens rights (carceral fem.slide #

Answer 25

Analysed data on the frequency of violence and critiqued all violence.

Question 26

Settler Silencing

Answer 26

a process of suppressing Indigenous Peoples and histories, lands, languages, cultures, and laws. Normalizing hegemonic whiteness. Promoting positive myths about the settler state. Myths of harmonious race relations.

Question 27

Property right

Answer 27

Imagined Meaning: The absolute right to do as one wishes with near-total control.
- Property is a relational concept tainted by history of slavery and colonization.

Question 28

Sovereignty

Answer 28

assertion of control and mechanisms to organize ownership

Question 29

Peremptory challenge

Question 30

Terra Nullins

Answer 30

claim that the lands were empty and uninhabited, or inhabited by “civilized people”

Question 31

Property right

Answer 31

A legal, social, economic, and political relationship in contemporary social formations.

Question 32

John Locke & improvement

Answer 32

nature and labour make something property?

Question 33

Corporate crime

Answer 33

Causes more harm to society than street crime, but not an obvious object of concern for the public or legal system.
- Snider 3 types of corporate crime: Environmental, safety, and financial

Question 34

Deferred prosecution agreement

Answer 34

When a corporate commits a crime, but rather than prosecuting them or having harsh punishment that will “hurt the economy” they have an alternate punishment thats usually a fine.

Question 35

Anti-bribery Convention

Answer 35

(OECD)which means your can’t use national economic interest as a reason NOT to prosecute. But if the evidence is there (fraud, bribery) then you MUST prosecute.

Question 36

Exceptionalism

Answer 36

an exception of moral, nation states carve out the “right” to exempt themselves and the corporations they protect from the law

Question 37

Corporate- state crime

Answer 37

Expose the existence of powerful arrangements between capitalist states and corporations.

Question 38

Restorative Justice

Answer 38

Centred on the notion that the victim and the community are harmed by crime. Obligation to restore wrongs committed by the offender: to compensate for the harm produced. Victims need support but the offender also needs support.

Question 39

Harm reduction

Answer 39

Public health response to addiction related issues. Encourage safer use rather than pushing people to the margins of society where they will experience violence and risk their health through exposure of drugs.

Question 40

Gender affirming Health care

Question 41

Safe supply

Answer 41

Offer a safe dose of whatever drug to addicts to ensure they are not picking up disease and then wean them off.

Question 42

Native transformative Justice

Answer 42

Video: having the offender sit with the victim if they want to, ask questions, come up with a proper punishment.

Question 43

Police reforms

Answer 43

Argument: the system works when it produces violence, primarily in the lives of marginalized groups, and then either justifies it or covers it up. Every failure of policing is turned into more demand for reforms (funding, violence..)

Question 44

Anti- reformist reforms

Answer 44

Reject proposal that allocate more money to police, position police as the solution, or offer a techno fit. Use funds from the police to other programs, disarm the police, ban chokeholds and no-knock raids

Question 45

Abolition

Answer 45

Not abolishing completely but, using the resources in other areas to help offenders rather than force more violence.