Curries Curse More Coherent Currie ThenON TO FEMINISM

Currie’s Curse More Coherent Currie Then…ON TO FEMINISM!!

Currie Basics (last class) • U. S. distinctive in our violent crime rates • U. S. also distinctive in it’s “Market Society” – “Mean” capitalism (sink or swim) – As compared to “corporate paternalism, ” or “compassionate capitalism” found in other countries

The Seven Reasons that the Market Society Produces Violence 1. By “destroying livelihood” 2. By Inherent tendency towards extremes of inequality and material deprivation 3. By weakening other types of public support 4. By eroding informal support networks

Seven reasons continued 5. By exalting brutal individualized competition and consumption over “community” and “productive work” 6. Deregulating the “technology of violence 7. Weakening or eroding alternative political values

So, what is the solution? • Changing Employment – Full employment at socially meaningful work at good wages with reasonable hours • Integrate individuals into a larger social purpose • Stabilizing local communities • Reduce the kinds of family stress that put kids at risk for abuse/neglect – How? • Public and nonprofit sectors • Work sharing/reduction of work time

Feminist Theories • Patriarchy – Application to the CJS • The “Gender Gap” – Why do males dominate criminal offending? – Has the “gender gap closed? ”

Explaining the Shrinking Gender Gap • NOTE: Gender Gap Still Very Large – BUT, female rates of crime increased more than males over the past decades • Beware of “percent change” with small numbers

Adler: Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal • Feminist movement of the 1960 s has a dark side: – Women engaging in “male” crimes • Armed robbery, embezzling, loan sharking… • Description of “theories of female crime” – Females as “good” (Sugar and spice…) • Therefore, female criminals?