Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Crime
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Crime

Author: James W. Messerschmidt

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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The book argues that capitalism, as an economic system, and patriarchy, as a form of gender organization, must be treated as interacting structures in any attempt to explain crime. It begins with a socialist feminist critique of the failure of Marxist criminology to analyze gender relations and the origin of female oppression accurately and, therefore, how these factors contribute to the development of crime in society. It then explores such topics as the limitations of both liberal and radical feminist viewpoints concerning crime, the causative factors for a variety of crimes, ranging from street crime to corporate crime, and the inadequacies of government's present conservative approach to crime.

The Law of the Father?
The Law of the Father?

Author: Mary Murray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-29

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1134951833

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Develops a new perspective on the class-patriarchy relationship. A coherent exploration into how Patriarchy constructed pre-capitalist and capitalist society, and its role in the transition from feudalism to capitalism.

Gender, Economics, and Crime
Gender, Economics, and Crime

Author: Mari Dewees

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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ABSTRACT: Recent research documenting important changes in gender specific offending over past decades has offered women's economic marginalization and the patriarchal capitalist structure of society as important explanations of this phenomenon. This study builds on previous work by further exploring the utility of women's economic marginalization and the elements of the patriarchal capitalist structure of society to understand changing gender differences in crime. Using pooled cross-sectional time series regression analysis I estimate the effect of changes in multiple dimensions of women's economic marginalization and the patriarchal capitalist structure on the changing female percentage of arrests for both violent and property offending in U.S. cities for the time period 1980-2000. Overall, study results offer insight into the unique impact of women's economic marginalization and the patriarchal capitalist structure on the changing female percentage of arrests for various crimes.

Masculinities and Crime
Masculinities and Crime

Author: James W. Messerschmidt

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780847678693

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Challenging the common masculinist character of criminological research, James W. Messerschmidt develops an elaborate scrutiny of the gender roles that, along with class and race, influence the occurrence and types of crimes in our society.

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism
Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

Author: Zillah R. Eisenstein

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1583678506

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Fourteen provocative papers on the oppression of women in capitalist countries, along with three articles on the subordinate position of women in two communist countries, Cuba and China. These important, often path-breaking articles are arranged in five basic sections, the titles of which indicate the broad range of issues being considered: Introduction; motherhood, reproduction, and male supremacy; socialist feminist historical analysis; patriarchy in revolutionary society; socialist feminism in the United States. The underlying thrust of the book is toward integrating the central ideas of radical feminist thought with those pivotal for Marxist or socialist class analysis.

Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century
Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century

Author: Neil Ewen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 3030564444

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This edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media. The text is founded on the principles of cultural criminology – that how we determine and understand crime lies in the social world and that the determination of crime and its mediation in popular culture have a political basis. The book consists of eleven chapters and is divided into three sections. Section one considers the intersection of crime and capitalism in a range of contemporary cultural texts. Section two examines how various power systems influence the operation of the media in its role of reporting crime and holding the powerful to account. Section three considers how texts in a variety of formats are used to conduct politics, communicate politics and enact political decision making.

A Sociology of Women
A Sociology of Women

Author: Jane C. Ollenburger

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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KEY BENEFIT: Synthesizing the disciplines of sociology and women's studies, this book presents major theoretical frameworks on sex and gender stratification, taking a feminist sociological approach to the study of women in society to analyze women's positions within the institutions of work, education and the law. Integrates social class, race/ethnicity and gender as dimensions of equality across social issues. Explains basic sociological approaches, including functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism, and provides an overview of feminist theories. Analyzes trends in census data over the past two decades, and includes new sections on trends in women owned businesses and hate crimes. Discusses the global view of women in the labor force over the last three decades, and concludes with a section on Women and Aging that illustrates the compounded effects of the interconnections between class, race and gender issues on women as they progress through the course of life. For sociologists, social scientists, and those interested in women's studies.

Global Obscenities
Global Obscenities

Author: Zillah Eisenstein

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1998-10

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0814722067

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The New York Times devotes the cover of its magazine to America's declining interest in politics and its obsession with money, finance, and the markets. Bill Gates builds a $50 million mansion while food pantries and homeless shelters overflow with the desperate. The explosive expansion of media and cyber conglomerates creates dreamworlds while the ecology of our actual world is jeopardized. Public space and public democracy withers, as is evidenced by the fact that the closest facsimile of a town square is the local Barnes and Noble. New geographies of power are defined by sex scandals, plant closings, cyberporn, sweatshop labor, information webs, and stock market schizophrenia. Global capitalism and its cyberrelations use this chaos to construct modern forms of sexual and racial exploitation. Into this world steps Zillah Eisenstein, with a book of profound despair and yet also great hope, informed by her trademark sharp analysis and her unrelenting passion for a more humane world. Exposing the purported democratic effect of new media for the global mirage it is, Eisenstein shows how transnational capital and its patriarchal obsessions threaten us all, while at the same time creating possibilities for a new democratic society.

The Sociology of Deviance
The Sociology of Deviance

Author: Robert J. Franzese

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0398079943

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Sociology of Deviance: Differences, Tradition, and Stigma is dedicated to a sociological analysis of deviance, a term reframed to imply differences. Deviance is approached from the outset as meaning differences: differences in attitudes, behaviors, lifestyles, and values of people. The terms OC devianceOCO or OC deviant behaviorOCO are understood as labels themselves and are used sparingly, such as in the title and in Chapter 14, OC Elite and Power DevianceOCO (OC devianceOCO appears with frequency in the theory chapters since it is a term used by the theorists addressed). Part of the title of the text is OC TraditionOCO meaning traditional topics are covered such as suicide, mental disorders and physical disabilities, addictions and substance abuse and use, criminal behaviors, and sexual behaviors and differences. The book has one chapter devoted to criminal behaviors, with emphasis placed on violent and property offenses. The term OC stigmaOCO appears in the title for two reasons: it is to honor the contributions of Erving Goffman to the study of differences, and it is used to accentuate the importance of societal reaction to attitudes, behaviors, lifestyles, and values that are varied and different in a heterogeneous society. Nowhere is this more evident than in Chapter 12, OC Societal Reaction and Stigmatization: Mental Disorders and Physical Disabilities.OCO"