Deck 6: Feminism and Criminology

Question 1

With the rapid increase in female-headed households and the stresses associated with poverty,it has been found that

A) fewer women are being charged with shoplifting, cheque forging, and welfare fraud.
B) more women are being charged with shoplifting, cheque forging, and welfare fraud.
C) fewer men are being charged with shoplifting, cheque forging, and welfare fraud.
D) more men are being charged with shoplifting, cheque forging, and welfare fraud..

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In her writing on the aftermath of the Montreal Massacre,Dana Bronson indicated that she was fearful primarily because:

A) Governments do not take sexual assault seriously enough
B) The police do not protect women enough
C) Universities are supposed to be places of ideas and change
D) There was a lot of pent up anger and hatred against women expressed

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Power control theory claims:

A) that women from poor families will be more likely to commit crimes
B) that women from patriarchal families will be more likely to commit crimes
C) that women commit crime under pressure from men
D) that women from egalitarian families will be more likely to commit crimes

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Patriarchy is:

A) government by priests
B) a society in which males are dominant
C) government by elders
D) being proud of your country

Question 5

In the liberal approach,the finding that women are more likely to be charged with shoplifting offences was explained with reference to their

A) biological makeup.
B) domestic instincts.
C) gender roles and socialization.
D) economic status.

Question 6

Which of the following ideas or concepts is associated with feminist criminology?

A) atavism
B) cultural construction of rape
C) social Darwinism
D) biological determinism

Question 7

Which of the following best illustrates a zero tolerance policy?
A) police lay charges in all cases where they have grounds to believe a domestic assault has occurred

A) any unwanted touching of someone is considered a sexual assault
B) anyone who has taken any drugs cannot consent to sex
C) all crimes are punished

Question 8

Criminology has been mainly concerned with:

A) the different behaviours of males and females
B) crime common to both genders
C) the social construction of sentencing
D) male crime

Question 9

The women's liberation thesis on crime is that:

A) different crime rates for men and women are biologically caused
B) women commit more crime than is recorded
C) women commit less crime than is recorded
D) greater gender equality will increase the rate of crime by women

Question 10

This refers to a perspective on a subject that is shaped by cultural assumptions rather than having a natural or objective basis is:

A) Patriarchy
B) Conservative approach
C) Cultural construction
D) Liberal approach
E) Cultural construction

Question 11

The _________________ understands difference between men and women as biologically-based sex differences.

A) Feminist approach
B) Liberal approach
C) Conservative approach
D) Gender approach

Question 12

The patriarchal family is the family in which

A) the eldest male is head of the household.
B) the eldest female is head of the household.
C) both the father and the mother work outside of the home
D) the father is employed in an authority position in the workforce and the wife is not employed outside the home.

Question 13

When was Canada's law changed so that husbands could be charged with sexually assaulting their wives?

A) 1945
B) 1789
C) 1983
D) 1998

Question 14

This term was used by researcher Amir to refer to the idea that some women are "rape prone",or seem to invite rape.

A) Victim precipitation
B) False rape
C) Invited rape
D) Enticement

Question 15

Which of the following terms does not fit with the perspective of gendering crime?

A) accomplishing femininity
B) pattern of practice
C) the violent woman
D) hegemonic masculinity

Question 16

This refers to a perspective on a subject that is shaped by cultural assumptions rather than having a natural or objective basis is

A) Patriarchy
B) Conservative approach
C) Cultural construction
D) Liberal approach

Question 17

In Lombroso and Ferrero's theory,woman displayed fewer signs of degeneration than men because

A) men had not advanced as far along the evolutionary continuum as women and so could not degenerate as far.
B) women had not advanced as far along the evolutionary continuum as men and so could not degenerate as far.
C) women were isolated in the home more so they did not degenerate as far.
D) women have more maternal instincts than men so they did not degenerate as far.

Question 18

The Supreme Court's ruling in the O'Connor case in 1995 had profound implications for survivors of sexual assault.The ruling meant that

A) Confidential records as well as personal diaries, letters, and the like could not be accessed in a sexual assault case.
B) Confidential records as well as personal diaries, letters, and the like could be accessed but therapists could not be required to hand over any records or notes relating to a complainant in a sexual assault case.
C) Confidential records as well as personal diaries, letters, and the like could be accessed, and therapists could be required to hand over any records or notes relating to a complainant in a sexual assault case.
D) Confidential records and notes by therapists could not be used as evidence in a sexual assault case.