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Radical feminism views patriarchy

as sexual system of power in which men rule

Men want to control

our sexuality

__________ keeps women oppressed

Sexism

Men exercise _________ over women

Control

In order to maintain this control, men can use ___________________

Violence

How else are women oppressed?

Domestic sphere, glass ceilings, paid maternity leave, "prince charming"

Refusing to reproduce moms are

Butch culture

Socialist Feminism

Women's oppression stem from their work in the paid economy

What are mothers to social feminists?

All mothers are working mothers

Socialist Feminist question

Why women's contribute does not match up economically to mens

Post-Modern feminist say

that social feminists are too idealistic

What is Science to Post-Modern feminists?

Science is male based and male biased

Why is Science male biased?

Because it studies things in particular interests of white men

Black Feminism

Ideas produced by black women that clarify a standpoint of and/or for black women

Critiques of Feminism

Men and women who think only gender matter are only limiting him/herself

But the summary of feminism is......

sexism discrimination exist in all social institutions

How much of total crime to women commit in America?

7%

Research limitations by the prison?

The prisons are owned privately, which means they can refuse allowing researchers into prisons

Research limitations by the justice system?

Does not want to grant many research requests

Many times women prisons

run for profit

It is estimated that ____ of women are sexually assaulted in intimate partner violence

90%

These victims.....

never get into the crime data

Less than ________ of __________report victimization

1/2, victims

Why would victims not report?

Little sanctions


Difficult to convict


Needs of victims are not the same


Physically/emotionally traumatized

Gender Gap?

Crimes that are inherently female

Out of 48 kills per day,

46 will be male

We pay attention to

women who deviate/are different from gender norms

Casey Anthony (not guilty) was interesting because

Such a strong deviation from gender roles. Shes attractive, white husband.

Criminology is (NeCC)

the scientific study of the nature, extent, cause and control of criminal behavior.

What is deviance

It is behavior that departs from social norms

Not all crimes are _______________

deviant

And not all deviant acts are_______________

criminal

Criminologists study both crime and deviance to understand the _____________________________

nature and purpose of the law

Utilitarianism means what

greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people

Choice is controlled by

fear of punishment

People have the choice

to commit crimes or not

Punishment is meant

to control behavior

Punishment needs to be

swift certain and severe

Thomas v Alabama

Blacks have rights to juries of other black members

Equal Pay Act

prohibits discrimination in compensation of the basis of gender

What are the limitations of the Equal Pay Act?

no salary disclosure, taboo to talk about wages, and no recourse

When was Title VII passed?

In 1964

What did Title VII state?

It prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex re "compensation, terms conditions or privileges of employment"

What was Title 7?

extremely helpful

Why was Title 7 extremely helpful?

It protected women by ensuring that you have to hire men and women equally

Despite Title 7 being extremely successful what was its limitation

It didn't change the duties women were hired to perform

What constitutes as workplace discrimination?

Harassment- Hostile work environment

What are examples of harassment?

quid-pro-quo (this for that)

Title 7 said that you couldn't just hire women but

had to make a work place a place so they could thrive

if you file a grievance

you can't be fired for filing a claim

What was Title IX- education act

Equal number of sports opportunity and eradicate discrimination of gender in the educational system

Affect from Title IX-

Athletics but not inter-gender sports

What passed in 1978?

Pregnancy Discrimination Act

What did the PDA say?

They could not refuse to hire you because you were in child-bearing years. They could not fire you for becoming pregnant. They had to give you 6 weeks off unpaid leave.

Where is the only country that doesn't require maternity leave?

The United States

Who decides if women get maternity leave?

The employers

So what is the limitations of the PDA

it just says you can't be fired

Same-sex couple and heterosexuals who can't get pregnant are

not entitled to any leave at all (upon adoption)

What barriers have kept women from working in the legal profession?

Social barriers

Who was Margaret Brent

Referred to as "Gentleman Margaret" first woman to practice law in the US. based in Maryland and lost her womanhood

Who was Ada Kepley?

First woman to enter a US law school

Which US law school did Kepley enter?

NorthWestern

When did Kepley enter Northwestern/

1870

Why were women not allowed to enter the law school?

Attractiveness, couldn't carry the caseload, emotionally unstable, they couldn't be discreet (gossip), beholden to marriage and motherhood

Who was Mary Ann Shad Cary

First black woman to enroll in law school

Bradwell v Illinois

Women goes to law school graduates, marries judge, passed bar, goes to get license and is refused

Why did Illinois say Bradwell couldn't get her license?

because her first job was to a wife and mother to her children and family

Annabelle Mansfield had a _________

brother who was a lawyer

When did Annabelle Mansfield pass the bar?

In 1869

Where did she pass and who gave Annabelle Mansfield her license?

Iowa

What was the backdrop of the suffragette movement?

These were women who had brothers, husbands, cousins that were practicing in law.

Until 1971 women taking the BAr

had to take it in separate rooms

So what are the stereotypes of men

They are creatures of lust

What characteristics are not suited for the practice of law?

Feminine ones

When could women join the ABA

1918

Some women to join the ABA had to

get a letter from their husband

"Land, like women....

was meant to be possessed."

Female professors are

extremely underrepresented

Female professors are extremely underrepresented

especially in law schools

What is the Mommy Track?

not on the partner track (10 year track)

Law firms and law schools

don't want to hire women of child bearing age

few firms accept

work from home and give little opportunity for flexibility

What do women face in the workforce then?

The glass ceiling

How much do women charge as lawyers?

They wont' bill accurately for their work and will bill less.

More women are _______ than actual lawyers

Paralegals

Women are most likely to allow their law license

to expire after receiving them

Men earn

significantly higher salaries

There are also _______ in the courtroom that face women

biases

Women are seen as

less effective, too emotional, gullible

There is a personality

tight rope

Women who are aggressive are deemed as

emotional, erratics, angry, bitchy and or"on the rag"

Bias studies

Women defendants and litigants face an uphill battle

What manifests in the courtooms

Biases in the perceptions and practices of courtroom actors

Which court cases are victims intensely scrutinized?

domestic violence, sexual assault, divorce,

Our law is

androcentric

What does androcentric law mean?

female victims of male crimes will be viewed through masculine lenses

Who was Sandra Day O Connor?

First woman appointed to the Supreme Court

Obama appointed how many women?

Two

How many women in total are on the federal US Supreme Court

3

What has that made the US Supreme Court?

liberal and left leaning

Drugs are intertwined with what two crimes?

Property crimes and sex works

What does that make these crimes that women commit?

Survival crimes

What happened before Nixon declared the war on drugs?

Drugs were given to women a lot by their doctors, take the edge of, deal with your unhappiness as being a house wife

When did Nixon declare the WOD

1970s

What did the WOD do?

Raised a particular stigma on mothers who used drug

What was going on in the 70s and 80s?

Drug use was part of counter-culture

After Nixon declared his war on drugs

there were exponential increases in prison sentencing.

When did Obama finally changed the guidelines for crack?

2011 . from 1g to 5g

What do women who are addicts have in common?

Most have had early exposure to the drug
Most had early victimization and reoccuring trauma


Many had social marginalization and economic pressures

Why could drug behavior become normalized?

The lack of pro-social models

_____________ of these women have reoccuring _______________________ disorders

72%, mental health

Out of all the women who are incarcerated in federal prisons, drug offenders make up

72%

Out of this 72% how many were convicted for use and not sale?

85%

Why do women use drugs?

Self medication, alleviates symptoms of mental disease, social marginalization, economic pressures, homelessness, domestic violence

Most women who use drugs have

co-occuring mental health issues which are more severe for women than men

A lot of times they want to treat symptoms of addiction but not the underlying mental problem

but that never works, you have to treat both things at once.

How many people are drug addicts?

5% of 7 billion.

What do women face after incarceration

difficulty accessing employment

Drugs are the most common factor in ______

female property offending

Pink Collar Crime is

prostitution

How many hos have had previous childhood victimization

87%

Why do hos not rely on police?

because the police are threats and could lead to further victimization

Network of women

informal support, carry knives, informal support networks

Neonaticide

killing of a child within the first 24 hours of birth

Who rarely commits neonaticide?

fathers

What is atypical of neonaticide?

It occurs with some other mental illness

What is infanticide?

killing of a child within the first year

Who rarely commits infanticide?

fathers

What is fillicide?

Kililng of ones own child after a year but before 18

Who commits fillicide?

Could be either parents

Women are much more likely to kill _____

male victims

Who was Andrea Yates?

she drowned her 5 children

What did Yates have?

a history of mental health issues

What was yates found?

not guilty by measure on insanity

What are the 2 altruistic themes of infanticide

Pressures to be a good mother and pressures of being the sole caretaker (they would be better somewhere else)

If women are under the age of 25 and kill their baby?

They are most likely a psychotic offender

What does it mean to be psychotic offender?

They disassociate the killing of an unwanted infant

There are three options of how to plead in these cases, what are they?

insanity (factual guilt, without the ability to inform intent)
Diminished capacity (murder down to manslaughter with evidence of mental illness

Gender is not something

one has/is but is something that one does

By assigning people to one or two categories (male/female)

society has created a dichotomy and strong difference between them

Genders strongest influence

is at the interactional level

What is feminism?

recognition that gender inequalities exist in society and moves to end domination and oppression in all forms

Feminism is

a recognition and critique of male supremacy combined with efforts to change it

Feminists fight for

the equality of women and argue that women should share equally in society's opportunities and scare resources

What happened in 1848?

Seneca Falls (birthplace of Feminism/

How many people attended Seneca Falls

300 people

How many years did the battle take to secure the first vote?

72 years

When did the first vote happen?

1920

Marianna Weber believe that

women's movement should focus on equality of women. and women should be financially independent

What was erotic movement about?

sexual autonomy, led to what is known as the erotic movement

Second-wave Feminism of the 1960s

free love helped women escape the sexual double standard

Divorce become _______

easier to obtain in the 1960s

Examining the race-class-gender linkage originated?

with african american feminists in the 1960s

what is the feminization of poverty?

women are more likely then men to be poor

Which women are likely to be poor?

single women, women of color/elderly women living alone

Mainstream white feminists

often negligent of the reality of women of color

Liberal Feminism

Is the mainstream perspective

Liberal feminism says

all people are created equal and should not be denied equal opportunity based on gender

Liberal Feminism NGO?

NOW

Liberal feminists think that obstacles to equality

lie in traditional laws and behaviors

liberal feminist think that

the primary obstacle is sexism

Why was liberal feminism criticized?

for failing to explain institutionalized social classes and racial oppression

Radical feminism is

the claim that all men use sexism to keep women oppressed. male power and privilege is the basic control of social relations

Radical feminists say what about sexuality and existing structures?

heterosexuality is a tool of male dominance and promote butch culture to escape the cage of femininity. God is male

Post-Modern feminism

only rational, abstract thought and scientific thought can lead to valid knowledge

Gender vertigo

Gender vertigo refers to the profund effect the elimination of gender would have on every persons sense of identity

Feminism refers to

a social movement to empower women

Feminists believe that women

should enjoy the same rights in society as men and that should share equally in society's opportunities

First wave feminism focused on the

suffrage

2nd wave feminism focused on

sexuality, inequalities, reproductive rights, victimization

What is the UCR

Uniform Crime Report

What is the Uniform Crime Report

one of the largest datasets on crime

How many police agencies does the UCR collect from?

over 17,000

Who publishes the UCR?

The FBI

The UCR is viewed....

as the most accurate assessment of crime

What are disadvantages to using the UCR

it only includes crimes report to the police and only includes data on certain types of crimes

What is the NCVS?

National Crime Victimization Survery

What does the NCVS include?

Interviews of victims age 12 or older regarding their victimizations

What is the dark figure of crime

the amount of unreported or undiscovered crime

Additional sources of data

Self-report studies, National Violence Against Women Survey, national intimate partner and seuaxl violence survey

The __________ has had a significant effect on the experience of women _________________

feminist movement criminal justice system

gender while sex

is social is biological