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Women Crime Justice
FSU - Test 1
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Criminology
Undergraduate 3
10/07/2010

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Sex
Definition
Biological differences.
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Gender
Definition
Society roles.
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Sexism
Definition
Oppressive attitudes and behaviors directed at either sex. Based on gender.
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Patriarchy
Definition
Social climate that values male dominance.
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Feminism
Definition
Struggle to end sexist oppression.
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Myths of feminism
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1) Lacks objectivity
2) Narrowly focuses on women
3) only one perspective
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Liberal feminism
Definition
Mary Wollstonecraft, Women's fight for equal education and employment.
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Marxist feminism
Definition
Inequalities set up by capitalist society.
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Socialist feminism
Definition
Class alone fails to explain women's subjugation.
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radical feminism
Definition
Hold men responsible for oppressing women.
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postmodern feminism
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Against socialist feminism, wants to find one theory to explain women's oppression.
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feminist method
Definition
collecting data, particularly in terms of hearing women's voices.
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Gender role
Definition
behavioral norms that, within specific culture are socially appropriate for genders.
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Calitalism
Definition
Free market economy
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androgyny
Definition
genderless
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androcentrism
Definition
Placing the male or masculine point of view at the center of ones view.
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Freda Adler
Definition
Liberation movement caused female crime.
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Rita Simon
Definition
liberation movement caused female crime.
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Positivism
Definition
biological determinism accounts for crime
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Cesare Lombroso
Definition
Father of criminology.
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Avatism
Definition
Criminals were lesser humans.
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Stigmata
Definition
Women did not evolve like men, Two types of women, Masculine and Law Abiding.
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Madonna/Whore duality
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Women are either good or bad.
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Freud
Definition
Women are anatomically inferior to men, Deviant women really want to be men.
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Masked Criminality
Definition
Women and men crime rates are similar, but women are better at hiding it.
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Konopka
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Women are driven to crime because of emotional problems.
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Pollak
Definition
Believed in Masked Criminality.
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Durkheim
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Amonie, state of normlessness.
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Merton
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Strain Theory
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Cohan
Definition
Boys have broad goals women have narrow goals. Women are only concerned with marriage.
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Cloward/Ohlin
Definition
Boys struggle for the American Dream where girls are concerned with finding a boyfriend.
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Agnew
Definition
negative events create pressure for crime.
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Three types of strain
Definition
Negative stimula
Loss of positive stimuli
failure to achieve positive goals.
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Coping resources
Definition
Anger response lead to crime.
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Sutherland
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Differential Association
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Differential association theory
Definition
Criminality is learned from ones peer group.
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hirschi
Definition
what motivates people to obey law? social control.
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Social Bonds
Definition
prevents people form acting on their criminal desires.
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social control theories
Definition
Why do people NOT commit crimes?
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4 Social bonds
Definition
attachment, commitment. involvement, belief.
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General theory of crime
Definition
people with low self esteem are more likely to commit crime.
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egalitarian families
Definition
risk taking
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police matrons
Definition
Two Per station allowed, but no funding so no hired.
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police matrons
Definition
Two Per station allowed, but no funding so no hired.
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WCTU
Definition
Women christian temperance union, spearheaded demand for police matrons.
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Alice Stebbins Wells
Definition
Fist police woman Los Andeles, 1910. Was originally a social worker.
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Woman bureas
Definition
Department of Labor, investigated and reported on conditions of working women.
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Traditional role
Definition
gender appropriate
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integrated role
Definition
expected to do the same job as men.
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modified role
Definition
cross between traditional and integrated.
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