CRIM 7210 Gender, Crime & Justice

Course Description:

Examines ways in which criminology, the criminal justice system, and the law contribute to the social construction of gender. Investigates process through which biological females are encouraged to become girls and women by cultural assumptions about female deviance, discourses on female crime, the criminal justice system, and legal assumptions about the meaning of equality. Focuses on feminist approaches to criminal justice that parallel the new feminist jurisprudence.

Prerequisites:

Not Applicable

Repeatable:

No

Prerequisite Remarks:

Not Applicable

Additional Information:

Syllabi:

Fall

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Spring

Summer 1

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Summer 2

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