CRM 6003 - Girls, Women, and Crime

Credits: 4

This course explores research and literature from criminology and criminal justice, social history, sociology, feminist legal theory, and popular culture to address issues of girls, women, crime, and both informal and formal methods of social control. Girls’ and women’s experiences with crime and social control can be understood only within the context of cultural definitions of femininity. This course will also examine the intersections of gender, age, race, socioeconomic status, mental illness, disability, and sexuality and how these statuses interact within the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The theoretical perspective known as intersectionality recognizes that people are placed at interlocking disadvantages and advantages due to where they are located in the social structural hierarchy, all of which in turn affect experiences and outcomes in justice systems.