Outline and assess feminist explanations of crime and deviance. Feminist views toward crime and deviance usually challenge the theories, concepts, methods and assumptions of most of the people already involved in the study of crime. They believe that in most condition men dominate the subject of crime and validate more on the male subject. Feminist essentially outline that most crime is caused by men as they appear to offend six or seven times more than a women and through figures such as self-report studies men are still the majority. Crime and deviance is an issue in society however due to women being socially controlled within the patriarchal society it means they are less like to commit crime and therefore have a lower rate.
(Taylor, Jun/Sep97) Persons with mental health issues are no more likely to commit acts of crime then those who are not mentally ill. However, they do tend to have more arrest records, are in jail or prison, or on parole or probations. Mental illness is three times higher in criminal acts that the general population of non-mental illness victims. This is usually due to the lack of care programs for the mentally ill. (Taylor, Jun/Sep97) Real Life
A study on mood and depression conducted by Shaleen L. Coss of the psychology department at Loyola University, found that participants who listened to heavy metal music with violent lyrics and music were less likely to feel depressed afterward than those who listened to non-violent songs. She also found that heavy-metal music listeners had higher self-esteem than other participants because of the rush listeners feel from violent music. (Jennifer Copely metaphoricalplatypus.com 2012) One of the most vocalized claims about heavy-metal music is that it makes its listeners, especially its young listeners, more violent. A study on violence, also by Shaleen L. Coss at Loyola University, found that this is not true, and there is no direct relationship between heavy-metal music and violence in teenagers. In fact, it was found that participants that listened to heavy-metal music were less violent than those in the control group.
This paper aims to explore the multiple factors that contribute to the occurrence of STDs in the older adult population. This paper will also identify possible implications for social work practice in order to address the occurrence of STDs in older adults. Many people assume that older adults no longer participate in sexual activity and they are considered to be at low risk for contracting STDs; however, this is a misconception. Studies have found that the majority of older adults report high levels of sexual interest well into their 70s (Hillman, 2008). In recent years, the diagnoses of STDs in older adults have sky rocketed.
Drivers Ed Module 8 Young drivers are less likely than adults to drive after drinking alcohol, but their collision risks are substantially higher when they do. The combination of driver inexperience with drinking is a deadly mix that all too often results in tragedy. Teens are more likely to exhibit impaired driving skills at a lower blood alcohol level. What are the risks involved? Teens who drink are at higher risk for date rape, pregnancy, HIV and other STDs, assault, drowning, alcohol poisoning, alcohol dependency, DUI-related injury and death (yours and/or others).
In society, when the words “sex offender” are brought up, the public usually has the same image in their mind. They usually would see this image of an older male that unceasingly tries to get with children. They public also has a stereotype for this image, that once your sex offender, you’re always a sex offender. Sex offenders are seen as among the most dangerous kinds of offender in terms of both the impact that their wrongdoing has on victims’ lives and because of concerns about their risk of reoffending. However it has recently came to question of whether this perception of dangerousness is supported.
Graff asks, “Why was she out so late at night, provoking men into rage by being openly female?” People blame women for being out so late and night, and it seems like women want men to enjoy them. It is absurd that people would blame women on everything, even when it is not women’s fault. Another cause of rape culture is that men as a whole are stronger than women. In the past women do not have more power than men and now they aren’t physically stronger than them so they would be over powered by men. For example most of the men can force women not to move with their strength, so women cannot escape from men.
In our current society rapists, pedophiles, exhibitionists, and other sex offenders make up the criminal category with the highest overall recidivism (also known as relapse) rate. In addition sex crimes, especially those perpetrated against minors, are widely considered by the vast majority of the population to be the most morally reprehensible offense period; in fact, if you were to ask a random person's opinion about how they would rank different types of crime in order of severity, it would not be uncommon to see murderers held in higher regard than child molesters! Even so, the general contempt that the public feels for these criminals has had no effect on the scientific communities' research interest in them; to date, numerous studies
If a man has respect for women he is less likely to rape. If a child grows up in a torn or abusive home they are more likely to rape because of built up anger or hatred. Rape happens at any age. Rape is most of the time committed by a family member or acquaintance, than a stranger (Young 27). In the 1970s rape was widely seen as a sexual act of uncontrollable lust, not an act of violence.
The Toll the War in Iraq Makes on its Women The Toll the War in Iraq Makes on its Women Christine DiMare March 25, 2012 The Toll the War in Iraq Makes on its Women The war in Iraq has brought more than devastation to just the landscape or the loss of its men. War also devastates the lives of Iraqi women. War makes widows, childless middle-aged women, and some are being sold for sex. Typically, Iraqi couples are married at age seventeen – eighteen for men and fourteen to seventeen for women (Iraq, 2012). However, the war in Iraq has cost Iraqi women their husbands more than one can imagine.