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women and crime midt
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| transformative criminology | how the CJ system responds to women and women's issues, understanding why women offend, what puts them there, and what can be done about it |
| victim impact/victim blaming | older, intoxicated, and women primarily victim blamed |
| victimization theories | Mendelsohn, Von Hentig, Cohen |
| Mendelsohn's theory | categories of victims- you caused your own victimization, innocent victim, victim with minor guilt, imaginary victim, |
| sexual assault myths/facts | Attitudes and beliefs that are generally false but are widely and persistently held, and that serve to deny and justify male sexual aggression against women Women who do not fight back have not been raped, If she had sex with me before, she has consented |
| feminism | a series of cia land political movemnts that advocated for women's rights and gender equality |
| cohen's theory | routine activity- a motivated offender, suitable target, absence of capable guardians causing victimization |
| felony | serious crime punsihable by more than 1 year in jail |
| misdemeanor | less than 1 year in jail or a fine |
| acquaintance vs. stranger sexual assault behaviors | more likely to fight back when it's a stranger, less likely to report when it's an acquaintance, 60% of all rapes and SAs happen in victim's home/friends home |
| power and control wheel | he ends up with power and control through violence, coercive tactics and emotional abuse |
| intimate partner violence | any form of abuse between individuals who currently have, or previously had, an intimate relationship, 3 women killed a day to IPV |
| alcohol within false reporting process on college campuses | |
| generated risks/barriers of staying/leaving abusive relationship | abuse, death, stalking, homeless, manipulation, anxiety, fear, cognitive distortions (thinking things are better than they are) |
| cycle of violence | phase 1 tension building, phase 2 acute battering, phase 3 honey moon phase |
| UCR<NIRBS<NCVS<VAWA crime measurement | UCR- general understanding of crime in US NIBRS- agencies forward data to FBI for every crime incident NCVS-Gives criminologists a greater understanding of the types of crimes committed and characteristics of its victims |
| victim rights | Right to attend criminal justice proceedings, to apply for compensation to be heard and participate in CJ proceedings, to be informed of proceedings and events in the Cj process, of legal rights and remedies, and of available services, to protection from |
| gender responsive treatment | creates parity in offender programing and is designed to meet the uniguqe needs of women. generally involves gender, environment, relationships, services and supervision, socioeconomic status, and community |
| women's pathways into the criminal justice system | trauma, abuse, victimization (violence) leads them there |
| VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) | shelters, resources, programs, local, fed/gov help, each state allowed funds |
| radical theory | wife battering, patriarchal gender arrangements lead to men's efforts to contrl women's sexuality often thru violence and abuse |
| liberal theory | concieves of of freedom as personal autonomy, living a life of one's own choosing and political autonomy |
| socialist theory | gender and class results in oppression, systems related to race, social class, gender, sexuality, and nation opress women |
| patriarchy | a person's gender is constructed thru actions and interactions to produce a form of masculinity or femininity that either reproduces or challenges common expectations for gender appropriate behaviors |
| von Hentig's theory | typology- your bio, psycho, social factors (young, old, females) |
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