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GEND3010 - Gender, Crime and Violence

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Project description

A growing body of research from criminology, psychology, sociology, media studies, and gender studies focuses on gender in relation to crime and violence. How are the social constructions of masculinity and femininity, within and across cultures, implicated in the conduct and character of crime and violence? The unit explores this question across a range of topics. Gender is complicated by other dimensions of difference: race and ethnicity, class, religion, nationality and sexuality, and these are also considered. The gendered constructions of both perpetrators and victims of crime and violence are considered. The focus on conflicts and displacements makes the unit go from the personal to the transnational and from the intimate sphere to global geopolitics.

Year 2022

Location Australia

Organization Macquarie University

Project aims

Project outcome

1. Demonstrate an understanding of gender, crime and violence from a transnational perspective. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and significance of feminist approaches to criminology and an intersectional framework for giving a gendered account of crime. 3. Analyse critically a variety of texts (documentaries, novels, media articles, poems, news clips) and data sources concerning gender within their historical, social and theoretical contexts. 4. Demonstrate the ability to examine the relationship between forms of knowledge and forms of everyday living. 5. Demonstrate the ability to examine the ways in which the social construction of gender is implicated in the conduct and character of crime 6. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of race when we discussing and analysing crime.