Question 1

Research using the Conflict Tactics Scale indicates that women are just as violent as men with regard to abuse in intimate relationships.

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Studies using the Conflict Tactics Scale have found that women report committing acts of violence against their partners at rates similar to, or in some cases even higher than, men. However, the context, motivation, and consequences of this violence can differ significantly by gender.

Question 2

What is meant by the term the cultural construction of rape? List three myths that illustrate the cultural construction of rape.For each,explain the myth,noting how it reinforces the use of sexual assault by men.

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Question 3

Describe the liberal approach to understanding the causes behind female criminality? What are the basic assumptions underlying this school of thought? Provide at least two examples of theories provided in your textbook that could be considered part of this liberal approach.

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Question 4

Construct the biographical history of a fictitious person who illustrates what feminist criminologists refer to as "the criminalized woman."

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Question 5

List the main arguments of a feminist approach to understanding women and crime.What are the main causes of female criminality according to this school of thought?

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Question 6

Describe how some mainstream theories of criminality have been applied to women and crime.What are some of the critiques of attempts to apply mainstream theories to women and crime?

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Question 7

Discuss what is meant by the generalizability problem for criminological theories dealing with women and crime and explain how criminologists have tended to respond to this problem.

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Question 8

According to the textbook,in recent years it has become increasingly popular among feminist criminologists to distinguish clearly between women as offenders and women as victims.

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Question 9

Describe the role of the law in condoning violence against women.

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Question 10

Compare and contrast the conservative (biological)and the liberal (structuralist)approaches to understanding female crime.List some of the differing assumptions for each that make them so different in how they seek to understand women and crime.

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Question 11

Describe what your textbook means by the "invisibility of women." What accounts for this invisibility within the realm of criminology? What are the implications (for criminology,crime prevention,and criminal justice)that results from the "invisibility of women"?

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Question 12

State the main differences in rape laws before and after the 1983 legislative amendments.What are some of the limitations of the new sexual assault laws and their interpretation in Canadian courts?

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Question 13

What did Otto Pollak mean when he referred to the "woman problem"? Describe the relationship between the "women problem" and criminality.Provide a critique of Pollak's controversial arguments.

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Question 14

Describe what is meant by "pathways research" and its findings with respect for understanding the causes of female criminality.What are some of the implications for dealing with female offenders that have resulted from this research?

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Question 15

List the main arguments of the women's liberation thesis.What are some of the main critiques of this thesis?

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Question 16

Discuss what is meant by the gender-ratio problem and describe the research that sought to explain this problem.

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Question 17

Criminologists have noted that the Conflict Tactics Scale is an incomplete measure of intimate violence because it does not capture the outcome of the violence.

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Criminologists have found that the Conflict Tactics Scale, which measures the frequency and severity of intimate partner violence, does not fully capture the outcomes or consequences of that violence.

Question 18

What is the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS)? How has the CTS changed our understanding of gendered violence? Note some of the major limitations of the CTS.

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Question 19

Describe the conservative approach to understanding female criminality.What is the basic assumption that differentiates men from women in this school of thought? Provide at least two examples of theories provided in your textbook that could be considered part of this conservative approach.What are the main critiques of this conservative approach?

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Question 20

Why are aboriginal women overrepresented among criminal offenders? What theories can be applied to better understand this overrepresentation?

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