Part B: Long Essay
Write a well-organized essay of approximately 1500 words on one of the following topics.
Identify a current criminal justice issue in the news that concerns the exploitation or inequality of women. Then, define the three feminist theoretical approaches—liberal, socialist, and radical—identified on page 119 in the Kramar text. Apply each of these to the issue you’ve identified. Finally, evaluate the perspectives. Which do you think is most useful to explain this issue, and why?
Compare the situation of immigrant women to others affected by domestic violence as identified in the readings by MacLeod and Singh. What are the additional issues faced by immigrant and refugee women, and how do these challenge domestic violence policy?
Identify four dominant explanations of the linkage between race and overincarceration discussed in the course, and give an example of each. Which is most valid, and why?
Using Canadian sources, discuss the concept of colour coding or racial profiling. You may want to read newspapers, go to the library, or use other means of gathering information. You should be able to locate material, perhaps from a minority community in Canada, to investigate the existence and impacts of colour codes. Be sure to contextualize your discussion with reference to the readings in this unit.
Course text
Ksenych, E. (Ed.). (2011). Exploring deviance in Canada: A reader. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-543990-8
Kramar, K. (2011). Criminology: Critical Canadian perspectives (1st edition). Pearson Education Canada (out of print). Used with permission of author. Type: Textbook, ISBN: 978-0-13-175529-1
Dean, M. (2009). Government and Governmentality. In Governmentality: Power and rule in modern society (2nd ed., pp. 17-20; 32-33; 266-285). Los Angeles: SAGE
Rose, N. (2000). Government and control. The British Journal of Criminology, 40(2), 321–339. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23638480
Topic 7 readings
From Kramar (2011):
Chapter 7: “Feminist Contributions to Criminology” by Kirsten Kramar (pp. 117–120, 130–144)
From the Kseynch (2011) text:
Chapter 31: “Wife Battering in Canada” by Linda MacLeod
Topic 8 readings
From the Ksenych (2011) text:
Introduction to Part IV: “Sexual Deviance” by Ed Ksenych
Chapter 16: “Off Street Commercial Sex” by Tamara O’Doherty
Chapter 18: “Juvenile Prostitutes” by James Hodgson
Chapter 28: “Sexual Offences in Canada” by Rebecca Kong, Holly Johnson, Sara Beattie, and Andrea Cardillo
Topic 9 readings
From Kramar (2011):
Chapter 9: “On Postcolonialism and Criminology” by Renisa Mawani and David Sealy
Chapter 11: “Immigrant and Refugee Women and the Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Policy” by Rashmee Singh
From the Ksenych (2011) text:
Chapter 25: “On the Assimilation of Racial Stereotypes among Black Canadian Young Offenders” by John Manzo and Monetta Bailey
