Courtney's Too Much Time too Think About TV and Stuff

I found this in my Google Slides. It must be from my Criminal Justice Admin degree. I always found feminist criminology interesting.  Most of the social theories have kind of the same starting point - crime is caused by a power imbalance. Marxist theory says that capitalism and financial inequality cause crime. I assume there's an explanation for white collar crime but I can't remember, it may just seek to explain criminality in the underclasses.  Feminist criminology began in the 60’s and 70’s. It was a response to the limited ways in which women were dealt with in the criminal justice system.  Traditionally women were controlled by their family and community. They often were not given the opportunity to commit crimes, and the deviance they exhibited was more commonly moving away from sex based roles of of soft feminine wife or mother figure. When women did deviate from these norms tended to be hidden by the family and the woman would be considered mentally ill. If the a...

If you can't see yourself in something, it probably isn't meant for you.  That said it doesn't mean you can't engage with, enjoy, comment on or feel things about that media or situation. I am not saying the all female Ghostbusters can only be watched by the ladies, what I am talking about is the #notallmen phenomenon, the backlash to the all female reboots and why some women's survival of sexual assault is believed more readily. I suspect a lot of the animosity that comes from some men when confronted with stories that either don't involve them or only involve them as the bad guy comes from the fact that men have always existed in word where they are the good guy. No matter the circumstance in every story there is someone they can look at who looks, sounds and feels like them who is doing the right thing and saving the day or at least contributing to the story in some meaningful way. Women, People of Colour and non binary people don't have this. They are qui...