Exam 5: Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women

In brief, feminist criminological perspectives emerged in the ______.

Women, on the other hand, tend to resort to "spousal homicide" as a response to initial violence from their male partner.

In general, women are viewed either as big children or as men.

In short, men who commit serious offenses are judged to have transgressed two sets of laws: criminal laws and the laws of nature.

Feminist perspectives centered largely on criminological theories.

Bad wives are identified as one of the standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes.

Infanticide is a crime that applies to women only, referring to the killing of a child under the age of ______ by its mother when the balance of her mind was disturbed as a result of childbirth.

Youth, figure, and sexuality are aspects of femininity that are valued by the male gaze.

Ted Bundy's victims were mostly ______ and middle class professional

Women who kill or who commit other very serious offenses are subjected to intense scrutiny regarding their physical appearance and attractiveness.

Two favored figures from Greek mythology who can be viewed as anomalous are Medea and the Minotaur.

In 2014, the state of ______ amended its criminal code to recognize the "viable fetus of a human being."

Male offenders attract more media and public attention than female offenders.

Which of the following actors portrayed Aileen Wuornos in a film?

The modern media are highly selective in their constructions of offenses, offenders, and victims.

In 2014, women were offenders in less than ______% of the murder cases where the offender was known.

According to the authors, women rarely ______

The supposed "first female serial killer" was Rose West.

In the ______, some researchers claimed that violent crime was associated with a male chromosome abnormality, dubbed "supermale syndrome."

What is Munchausen's Syndrome?