2023-2024 Catalog

CJU-H275 Women and Crime

Examines the complex relationships between women and crime today. This focus includes women as criminal offenders; women as victims of crime; and women as both offenders and victims. Course materials draw from recent feminist scholarship on these issues in the social sciences. Topics include the causes of women's crime women, drugs, and crime; child abuse and trauma; prostitution and sex trafficking; race, gender and victimization; and feminist social movements against violence. Crimes of violence against women are a central focus in the course.

Credits

4

Core Curriculum

  • Perspectives

Offered

Ocasionally