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Feminism and criminology
Kathleen Daly,Meda Chesney-Lind +1 more
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In this paper, the core elements of feminist thought and demonstrate their relevance for criminology are sketched and discussed in three areas: building theories of gender and crime, controlling men's violence toward women, and gender equality in the criminal justice system.Abstract:
In this essay we sketch core elements of feminist thought and demonstrate their relevance for criminology. After reviewing the early feminist critiques of the discipline and the empirical emphases of the 1970s and early 1980s, we appraise current issues and debates in three areas: building theories of gender and crime, controlling men's violence toward women, and gender equality in the criminal justice system. We invite our colleagues to reflect on the androcentrism of the discipline and to appreciate the promise of feminist inquiry for rethinking problems of crime and justice.read more
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Gender and crime: Toward a gendered theory of female offending.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine patterns of female offending and the gender gap and expand on a gendered paradigm for explaining female crime first sketched elsewhere, and conclude with recommendations for future work.
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Gender and Crime: A General Strain Theory Perspective
Lisa Broidy,Robert Agnew +1 more
TL;DR: This paper applied Agnew's general strain theory (GST) to two fundamental questions about gender and crime: (1) How can we explain the higher rate of crime among males? (2) Why females engage in crime?
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Coefficients of Determination for Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared different coefficients of determination for continuous predicted values (R 2 analogs) in logistic regression for their conceptual and mathematical similarity to the familiar R 2 statistic from ordinary least squares regression.
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The Gendered Nature of Risk Factors for Delinquency
Joanne Belknap,Kristi Holsinger +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the contribution of feminist pathways to better understand the risks associated with and improve the responses to girls' and boys' delinquency by examining demographic, abuse, family, school and peer, and self-esteem variables.
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Low self-control and opportunity: testing the general theory of crime as an explanation for gender differences in delinquency*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors test Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime as an explanation for gender differences in the delinquency of approximately 2,000 Canadian secondary school students.
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The Second Sex
TL;DR: The Second Sex as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and women in our time, and it is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis from the pen of a writer and novelist of penetrating imaginative power.
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The American occupational structure
Peter M. Blau,Otis Dudley Duncan +1 more
TL;DR: The American Occupational Structure is renowned for its pioneering methods of statistical analysis as well as for its far-reaching conclusions about social stratification and occupational mobility in the United States.
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The science question in feminism
TL;DR: Harding as mentioned in this paper provides the first comprehensive and critical survey of the feminist science critiques, and examines inquiries into the androcentricism that has endured since the birth of modern science, and argues that the critical discourse they foster is vital to the quest for a science informed by emancipatory morals and politics.
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Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
TL;DR: The authors argue that the erasure of lesbians from scholarly feminist literature is anti-lesbian and anti-feminist in its consequences, and to distort the experience of heterosexual women as well.