topic 10 - feminist explanations of crime and deviance Flashcards
postmodern feminism: Smart and Cain
- research on crime is malestream
- concerns of criminology (e.g. burglary, street crime) = concerns of men. women must look beyond (domestic violence, sexual violence, rape, harrassment)
- transgressive criminology
- rape conviction rate lower as physical evidence is often washed away; women are forced to defend their character and previous sex behaviour
- women as secondary victims; of crime itself and of criminal justice system
radical feminism - women are victims of crimes committed by men
- femicide: WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM 2013: “6 women are killed every hour by men around the world”
- UN DATA: more than half of women and girls killed by men are killed by current/previous partners
- CASEY REPORT 2023: commissioned after Sarah Everard. ‘a toxic culture of misogyny, racism and homophobia’ in Met police.
“two to three police officers will face trial every week until 2024 for crimes such as violence against women and dishonesty”
Dobash and Dobash: violence became ‘routine’ and ‘normal’
Dworkin: male dominated culture mean rape, prostitution and porn are inevitable.
All straight sex is rape.
Rape within marriage only outlawed 1991.
Liberal feminists: women commit less crime than men?
Heidensohn; control theory (controlled in both private and public spaces)
Islington Crime Survey ‘virtual curfew’ for women at night
Male superiors at work
McRobbie and Garber; bedroom culture, cult of femininity, teeny bop
Marxist feminists; Ansley
women are “takers of shit” (more likely to be victims of crime and oppression)
family aids capitalism and patriarchy: rage from capitalist oppression of working class manifests itself as domestic violence and marital rape
transgressive criminology: it is a moral crime that women provide unpaid labour and raise a generation of docile workers
