Feminist Criminology
Learning Objectives
By the end of this week, you will be able to:
- Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.
- Identify the main tenets of the liberation thesis.
- Discuss how power-control theory attempts to explain gender differences in delinquency rates.
- Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.
- Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime
WORKFLOW
Reading
*Transgressing Criminology Boundaries: Feminist Perspectives in Criminology by MaDonna R. Maidment. Advancing Critical Criminology: Theory and Application, edited by Walter S. DeKeseredy, and Barbara Perry, Lexington Books, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bmcc/detail.action?docID=1331606.
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