Lec 4 Flashcards
Victims of female acts of violence are
Spouses
Acquaintances
Strangers
Family Members
The Role Convergence Hypothesis and Gender Gap in Crime
As work roles of women and men come closer, so will their involvement in crime
How crime rates changed for young girls from 1980 to 2000
They have become twice as likely to be charged
How have males crime patterns changed from 1980 to 2000
It has remained constant
Which gender commits more corporate crimes
Men although more women are in corporate conditions
Race as a correlate of crime
Race is not as strongly related to crime as gender, although some minority groups are over represented in police reports
Differential offending hypothesis
Relating discrimination to the behavior of a group
Differential treatment hypothesis
Treating groups different in the criminal justice system
Cultural theories of why indigenous people are overrepresented in the Canadian CJS
People assume-
Indigenous people are inherently violent
Indigenous cultures differ from the dominant Euro-Canadian culture
Critiques of cultural theories
Presuppose a monolithic, static indigenous culture
Believes there is a type of behavior associated with that culture
Pathologize Indigenous culture
Colonial Model
Colonization has had devastating psychological and social consequences
Critical race theory
The law reflects the dominant group’s norms and values and favors such groups
Does drug/alcohol misuse correlate with crime
Yes, 75 percent of inmates struggle with substance abuse
Psychopharmacological dimension causing crime
Drugs/alcohol change ones way of thinking
The economically compulsive dimension causing crime
Committing a crime to buy drugs
