Deck 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Women and the Criminal Justice System

Question 1

The term applied to discrimination against or the putting down of groups of people on the basis of their social identity or characteristics is known as:

A) Suppression.
B) Depression.
C) Oppression.
D) Pressure.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Ecofeminism

A) Values all forms of plant and animal life.
B) Finds a spiritual presence in nature.
C) Likens oppression of the earth to the oppression of women.
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The view that masculine power and privilege are the root cause of all social inequality is derived from what feminist school of thought?

A) Liberal
B) Radical
C) Socialist
D) Postmodern

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The view that argues that, as private property evolved, males dominated all social institutions is most relevant to which major feminist school of thought?

A) Liberalism
B) Radicalism
C) Latina
D) Socialist

Question 5

The view that both class and gender relations are equal, as they interact with and reinforce each other in society is derived from what major feminist school of thought?

A) Womanist
B) Radical
C) Postmodern
D) Socialist

Question 6

The first feminist movement began at:

A) The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
B) Selma, Alabama
C) The Beijing Convention
D) None of the above

Question 7

Black feminism builds on:

A) Marxism
B) Critical race theory
C) Ecofeminism
D) Sectarianism

Question 8

Liberal feminism, more than other models, stresses:

A) Socialism.
B) Lesbian rights.
C) Gender equality.
D) Economic equality.

Question 9

Socialist feminists uniquely focus on gender plus:

A) Democracy.
B) Class.
C) Equality.
D) Race relations.

Question 10

Womanism is a construct most closely associated with:

A) Latina feminism.
B) African American beliefs in gender equality.
C) Liberal feminism.
D) Postmodern feminism.

Question 11

The term intersectionality as used by feminist theorists refers to:

A) Interlocking forms of oppression.
B) The link between women's crime and their punishment.
C) The coming together of different professions with common interests.
D) Including men in the women's movement.

Question 12

Carol Gilligan's major contribution that has influenced the treatment of girls and women in correctional institutions today is the introduction of:

A) Gender-specific treatment.
B) Feminist architectural design.
C) The focus on gender equality in treatment offerings.
D) Educational opportunities for female inmates.

Question 13

The concept of the social construction of gender refers to:

A) Human sexuality.
B) Males having power and control over females in society.
C) Non-hierarchical relationships.
D) A goal but not a process.

Question 14

According to the text, one of the effects of the backlash to the women's movement is:

A) Lower incarceration of women.
B) Increase in female violent offenses.
C) Notion of the dangerous female criminal.
D) All of the above

Question 15

In Commonwealth v. Daniel, Jane was convicted of:

A) Murder.
B) Robbery.
C) Shoplifting.
D) All of the above

Question 16

Empowerment theory focuses on:

A) Personal and group strengths.
B) Issues of power.
C) Political and personal empowerment.
D) All of the above

Question 17

The term for a major shift in the population's thinking is:

A) Paradigm shift.
B) Blowback.
C) Institutionalization.
D) None of the above

Question 18

Feminist methodology is an approach that favors, according to the text:

A) Drawing on concepts that must be evidence based.
B) Empiricism in reaching conclusion.
C) A qualitative or narrative approach.
D) All of the above

Question 19

From a historical perspective, it is apparent that major theoretical works written by male criminologists about men and boys have been alarmingly gender blind.

Question 20

Historically, girls' delinquency was seen as neither interesting nor important.

Question 21

The second feminist movement was born in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention, when women demanded the right to vote.

Question 22

Third-wave feminists object to white feminists defining "women's issues" from their own standpoint without including women of color and third-world concerns.

Question 23

Womanism is a term that is used to describe Liberal feminism.

Question 24

Class and gender are two major focuses of Socialist feminism.

Question 25

Intersectionality refers to the link between women's crime and their punishment.

Question 26

According to the text, Black feminism does not derive concepts from critical race theory.

Question 27

Liberal feminism's focus is often referred to as egalitarianism.

Question 28

Carol Gilligan's major contribution to the treatment of girls and women in the correctional institutions today is the introduction of gender-specific treatment.

Question 29

Cisgender women are gender nonconforming women.

Question 30

The notion of the dangerous female criminal is an example of the backlash to the women's movement.

Question 31

To be accepted as a trans woman, one must have taken medical measures in the transition to female.

Question 32

In Commonwealth v. Daniel, Jane was convicted of shoplifting.

Question 33

Empowerment theory focuses on both political and personal empowerment.

Question 34

The term for a major shift in the population's thinking is called institutionalization.

Question 35

Male dominance has been a factor in the right to own property.

Question 36

Arrest reports reveal that women commit the majority of property crimes.

Question 37

A major challenge to implementing gender-specific programming is the scope of the needed changes.

Question 38

____________ consists of a collection of different theoretical perspectives, each explaining the oppression of women in a different way.

Question 39

A major influence in the birth of the second feminist movement was the groundbreaking _________ of Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique.

Question 40

Liberal feminists look to ____________ to ensure the rights of women and changes in socialization practices.

Question 41

_____________ is a construct most closely associated with African American beliefs in gender equality

Question 42

The term ____________, as used by feminist theorists, refers to the interlocking forms of oppression.

Question 43

Socialist feminists uniquely focus on gender plus _____________.

Question 44

The Seneca Falls Convention marked the start of the _____________ movement.

Question 45

Liberal feminism uniquely stresses ______________.

Question 46

Carol Gilligan's major contribution of the treatment of girls and women in correctional institutions today is the introduction of ______________ understandings.

Question 47

The concept critical race theory is most closely associated with __________feminism.

Question 48

According to the text, _________________ is the term for people who are not transgender.

Question 49

The notion of the dangerous female criminal is among the effects of the anti-feminist _____________ to the women's movement.

Question 50

In Commonwealth v. Daniel, Jane was convicted of ______________.

Question 51

Radical and Marxist beliefs are most closely associated with __________ feminism.

Question 52

The term for a major shift in the population's thinking is a _____________ shift.

Question 53

Match the term with the appropriate definition.
-Liberal feminism

A) Womanism
B) Structured inequality
C) Egalitarianism
D) Class and gender

Question 54

Match the term with the appropriate definition.
-Socialist feminism

A) Womanism
B) Structured inequality
C) Egalitarianism
D) Class and gender

Question 55

Match the term with the appropriate definition.
-Black feminism

A) Womanism
B) Structured inequality
C) Egalitarianism
D) Class and gender

Question 56

Match the term with the appropriate definition.
-Marxist feminism

A) Womanism
B) Structured inequality
C) Egalitarianism
D) Class and gender

Question 57

As early as the 1980s, Daly and Chesney-Lind (1988) listed various aspects of feminist thought that distinguished it from traditional criminological inquiry. Discuss these aspects.

Question 58

Describe some of the criticisms of four of the major feminist schools of thought.

Question 59

What are the ways that gender is socially constructed?

Question 60

How has the anti-feminist backlash been manifested historically?