Exam 15: Crime As Case Study

The argument which states that the criminal justice system treats women less harshly than men is known as the ___________ thesis.

In the context of crime, identify three differences between men and women, drawing upon the 2004 Statistics Canada data presented in the text?

The major danger with categories such as postpartum depression, premenstrual syndrome, and batter woman syndrome is that they risk ___________ women.

Yvonne Johnson's book Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman (1999) shows how the Canadian prison system has become a/an __________ part of life for many First Nations people.

While woman specific defenses such as "battered woman defense" can be positive in their acknowledgment of gender differences, they can be negative in that they _________ women's difference.

The ______________ of crime refers to such things as the identification of criminal activity, charging with an offence and arrest of an individual.

Write a comparative essay in which you examine the approach to sex work in two different countries. What are the similarities and differences and how has your analysis shaped your own position on the subject?

One of the world's first criminologists, Lombroso, argued in The Criminal Man that some people are born predisposed to crime. He believed that _____________ was a good indicator of this predisposition.