Schram Ch.12 Test Bank Answers Feminist Theories Of Crime

Test Bank

Chapter 12: Feminist Theories of Crime

Multiple Choice

1. Feminists of the second wave of feminism argued that to be fully liberated, women needed to have all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. equal access to economic opportunities

b. freedom of conscience

c. sexual freedoms

d. civil liberties

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. ______ pertains to behaviors and attitudes toward certain individuals that treat them as though they are on a pedestal.

a. Gender

b. Patriarchy

c. Paternalism

d. Chivalry

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Key Terms

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Feminist criminology evolved when ______.

a. women began committing crime

b. a woman committed the first female murder

c. various assumptions and stereotypes about women in criminal justice were being questioned

d. women behaved differently than men

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. According to socialist feminist perspective, what may be women’s ultimate worst enemy?

a. liberalism

b. capitalism

c. patriarchy

d. socialism

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Key Terms

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The Declaration of Sentiments stressed the need for reforms in all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. employment

b. child custody laws

c. divorce

d. property

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. A perspective that says women as a group cannot be understood, even by other women, because every person’s experience is unique; therefore, there is no need to measure or research such experiences.

a. liberal feminism

b. conservative feminism

c. radical feminism

d. postmodern feminism

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. ______ argued that there are basic biological differences between males and females.

a. Cesare Lombroso

b. Otto Pollak

c. W. I. Thomas

d. Sigmund Freud

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: William I. Thomas: The Biology of Female Offending

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The power-control theory attempted to explain gender differences in delinquency rates by including ______.

a. social constructs

b. family dynamics

c. environmental influences

d. socioeconomic status

Learning Objective: 12.4: Identify the main tenets of the liberation thesis.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Power-Control Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Multiracial feminism is an intersectional framework that includes such defining social characteristics as all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. sexuality

b. nationality and/or race

c. geographic region

d. class

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminist Criminology

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. According to power-control theory, an integral aspect to the relationship between family dynamics, gender, and delinquency rates was ______.

a. environmental context

b. social structure

c. cultural acceptance

d. social class

Learning Objective: 12.4: Identify the main tenets of the liberation thesis.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Power-Control Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Socialist feminism attempts to synthesize ______ and ______ feminism.

a. Marxist; liberal

b. radical; Marxist

c. conservative; liberal

d. postmodern; radical

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Marxist and Socialist Feminism

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. ______ typically collects data, usually though interviews, at one point in time that provide retrospective inquiry as to an individual’s life and life experiences.

a. Qualitative research

b. Life-course research

c. Pathways research

D. Quantitative research

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminist Criminology

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Amanda Burgess-Proctor was a proponent of multiracial feminism, which includes such defining social characteristics as race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and age; multiracial feminism can be distinguished from other feminist perspectives by several factors EXCEPT ______.

a. ignore the interaction of social structure and women’s agency

b. gender relations do not exist in a vacuum

c. it is founded on the concept of relationality

d. it stresses the importance of recognizing the ways intersecting systems of power and privilege interact on all social-structural levels.

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Critiques of Feminist Theories

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. The phrase “the personal is the political” refers to the notion that the “private sphere” is as structured as the “public sphere” by power relations involving all of the following factors EXCEPT ______.

a. age

b. race

c. religion

d. sexuality

Learning Objective: 12.7: Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Policies Based on Feminist Theories of Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. ______ argued that women are more criminal in nature than have been generally perceived. He also suggested that criminologists should address the unknown criminality of women.

a. Cesare Lombroso

b. Otto Pollak

c. W. I. Thomas

d. Sigmund Freud

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Otto Pollak: Hidden Female Criminality

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. ______ denotes that women need to be protected for their own good. In a broader social context, this implies independence for men and dependence for women.

a. Gender

b. Patriarchy

c. Paternalism

d. Sex

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Key Terms

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. What Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote?

a. Eleventh

b. Fifteenth

c. Nineteenth

d. Twentieth

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. All of the following are considered one of the four virtues comprising the attributes of true womanhood EXCEPT ______.

a. purity

b. domesticity

c. piety

d. assertiveness

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Traditional Theories of Female Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. The negative characterization of the black female as domineering, strong, assertive, independent, and masculine is called ______ stereotype.

a. the mammy

b. the seductress

c. the Amazon

d. the sinister Sapphire

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Traditional Theories of Female Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Welfare liberal feminists favor government involvement in providing citizens, particularly underprivileged individuals, with all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. food and water

b. housing

c. social security

d. health care

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Liberal Feminism

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. The first wave of feminism started in the ______ and included ______ as one of its major events.

a. late 1700s; American Revolution

b. mid-1800s; Seneca Falls Convention

c. 1960s; Civil Rights Act of 1964

d. 1980s; Violence Against Women Act

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The second wave of feminism started in the ______ and included ______ as one of its major events.

a. late 1700s; American Revolution

b. mid-1800s; Seneca Falls Convention

c. 1960s; Civil Rights Act of 1964

d. 1980s; Violence Against Women Act

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. According to ______ causes of gender inequality are due to biological sex differences, and social behavior is based on the biological sex differences.

a. patriarchy

b. traditional or conservative perspective

c. gender

d. paternalism

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Traditional or Conservative Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. Which idea is not consistent with NOW’s 1967 Bill of Rights for Women?

a. The Equal Rights Amendment should be ratified.

b. All women should have equal employment rights and not lose opportunities due to childbirth or pregnancy.

c. Women should enjoy reproductive freedom when it comes to birth control and abortion.

d. The government should not be involved in any way with child care facilities.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Liberal Feminism

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. A major criticism of the liberal feminist perspective is that it ______.

a. primarily focuses on the interests of white, middle-class, heterosexual women

b. focuses too much on women of color and Latinas and not enough on white women

c. fixates on the cause of those who are economically disadvantaged and ignores all gender issues

d. only focuses on the concerns of lesbians and transgender individuals and not at all on heterosexual women

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Liberal Feminism

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. Which statement is not consistent with a radical feminist philosophy?

a. Gender is a system of male dominance.

b. Women’s biology is the main cause of the patriarchy.

c. Women should strive to be exactly like men.

d. Sexism is the worst example of human oppression.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Radical Feminism

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Which statement is not accurate about radical-cultural/radical libertarian feminism?

a. Critics say that they need to reconcile the split between themselves in an effort to avoid polarization, particularly in the area of sexuality.

b. Many believe that there is no such thing as consensual heterosexuality, although they concede these relationships can be pleasurable.

c. They believe that only lesbians are capable of consensual sex in a patriarchal society.

d. They all agree on one universal function for human sexuality.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Radical Feminism

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. Which type of feminism believes that, “women as a group cannot be understood, even by other women, because every person’s experience is unique; therefore, there is no need to measure or research such experiences, and there is no single formula for being a good feminist”?

a. Marxist feminism

b. socialist feminism

c. postmodern feminism

d. radical feminism

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Postmodern Feminism

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Which type of feminism perceives domination—of women, minority groups, animals, and the Earth—as the essential problem rather than the patriarchy?

a. postmodern feminism

b. ecofeminism

c. Marxist feminism

d. radical feminism

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Additional Feminist Perspectives

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. What types of attributes of female criminals did Lombroso focus on the most?

a. physical

b. emotional

c. spiritual

d. psychological

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cesare Lombroso: Physical Attributes of Female Offenders

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. W. I. Thomas argued that a woman who went into prostitution did so to ______.

a. enhance her financial security

b. satisfy a desire for excitement and response

c. improve an often fragile level of self-esteem

d. reject the stereotype of a good mother

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: William I. Thomas: The Biology of Female Offending

Difficulty Level: Easy

32. Sigmund Freud believed that women ______.

a. were intellectually superior

b. were anatomically superior

c. are overly concerned with social issues

d. were anatomically inferior

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sigmund Freud: Female Inferiority

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. Otta Pollack believed that ______.

a. women were honest to a fault

b. females had a deceitful nature

c. a woman’s socialization made it harder for her to commit crimes

d. women’s biology did not affect potential criminality

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Otto Pollak: Hidden Female Criminality

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. The liberation thesis, also referred to as the emancipation hypothesis, attempts to link the ______ with ______.

a. women’s liberation movement; female crime rates

b. 19th Amendment; declining fertility rates

c. industrial revolution; prison overpopulation

d. theories of Sigmund Freud; radical feminism

Learning Objective: 12.4: Identify the main tenets of the liberation thesis.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Liberation Thesis

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. What does objectivity mean?

a. biased

b. tautological

c. unbiased

d. controversial

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Objectivity and Subjectivity

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. Which statement is not one of those identified by Kathleen Daly and Meda Chesney-Lind that distinguish feminist thought from other forms of social and political thought?

a. Systems of knowledge reflect men’s views of the natural and social world; the production of knowledge is gendered.

b. Gender and gender relations order social life and social institutions in fundamental ways.

c. Women should be at the center of intellectual inquiry, not peripheral, invisible, or appendages to men.

d. Gender is a natural fact that is separate from social, historical, and cultural influences.

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminist Criminology

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. What type of research typically collects data, usually through interviews, at one point in time that provide retrospective inquiry as to an individual’s life and life experiences?

a. life-course

b. pathways

c. anecdotal

d. quantitative

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminist Criminology

Difficulty Level: Easy

38. Praxis refers to ______.

a. the difference between quantitative and qualitative research

b. the way researchers choose which type of quantitative analysis to use

c. the establishment of alternative arrangements that will provide models for change

d. the way those in power arrange to maintain the status quo and resist attempts for social change

Learning Objective: 12.7: Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Policies Based on Feminist Theories of Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

39. When examining the effects of gender responsive programming, one study revealed that girls who followed more gendered pathways to secure detention ______.

a. responded more positively to this type of approach than a traditional one

b. were verbally resistant to this type of programming

c. never had any interactions with law enforcement in the future

d. refused to take part in any such programs at all

Learning Objective: 12.7: Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Policies Based on Feminist Theories of Crime

Difficulty Level: Medium

40. What is not one of the goals of legislative reforms to modify rape statutes mentioned in the chapter?

a. increasing the reporting of rape

b. expanding the range of people protected by the law

c. improving the treatment of victims

d. reducing the statute of limitations on rape

Learning Objective: 12.7: Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Policies Based on Feminist Theories of Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Most scholars contend that feminism has evolved in three major waves.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Both chivalry and paternalism suggest that certain individuals or groups need protection because they are weak and helpless.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Key Terms

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Classical liberal feminists support limited government and a free market as well as political and legal rights.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Liberal Feminism

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The characterization of the black female as a matriarch has traditionally been negative.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Traditional Theories of Female Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Feminist scholars have argued that science reflects the social values and concerns of dominant societal groups.

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminist Critiques of Previous Studies of Women and Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Some feminists have argued that the pathways perspective has provided researchers with a greater understanding of how a woman’s offending is influenced by the social conditions of her life compared to life-course research.

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Feminist Criminology

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The blurred boundaries theory assumes that groups of people are socially situated in relation to other groups of people based on their differences.

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Critiques of Feminist Theories

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Gender-specific programs target juvenile girls and give females an increased sense of community that has been associated with developing and integrating a healthy identity.

Learning Objective: 12.7: Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Policies Based on Feminist Theories of Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Under socialist feminism, class relations are primary with gender relations secondary.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Marxist and Socialist Feminism

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Radical feminists maintain, in principle, that sexism is the first, most widespread form of human oppression.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Radical Feminism

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Female youths from patriarchal families were encouraged to engage in risk-taking behaviors, just as their brothers were.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Identify the main tenets of the liberation thesis.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Power-Control Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. When a researcher uses the sex role approach, it may lead to a form of biological determinism.

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminist Critiques of Previous Studies of Women and Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The “add women and stir approach” is when one uses an existing theoretical perspective based on males and “adds” women.

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminist Critiques of Previous Studies of Women and Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The development of an intersectional perspective on gender and race is rooted in the work of scholars focusing on women of color.

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Critiques of Feminist Theories

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Praxis is when theory translates into action.

Learning Objective: 12.7: Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Policies Based on Feminist Theories of Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Gender-specific programming is targeted to juvenile males and consists of a curriculum focused on their specific needs.

Learning Objective: 12.7: Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Policies Based on Feminist Theories of Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. “The personal is the political” refers to the notion that the “private sphere” is as structured by power relations involving gender, sexuality, race, class, and age as the “public sphere.”

Learning Objective: 12.7: Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Policies Based on Feminist Theories of Crime

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. The second wave of feminism started in the 1980s and continues to the present day.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Sex differences typically refer to biological characteristics, such as reproductive organs and hormones.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Key Terms

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Paternalism denotes that women need to be protected for their own good.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Key Terms

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Classical liberal feminists favor government involvement in providing citizens, particularly underprivileged individuals, with housing, education, health care, and social security.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Liberal Feminism

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Radical feminism evolved from the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Radical Feminism

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Marxist feminism and social feminism are at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Radical Feminism

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. Lombroso emphasized the physiological and psychological determinants of female criminality rather than socializing factors or social-structural constraints.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cesare Lombroso: Physical Attributes of Female Offenders

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Proponents of multiracial feminism insist that feminist criminology should analyze crime solely through the lens of race and/or ethnicity, ignoring all other factors.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Feminist Criminology

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Give three examples of what values women should not emphasize according to radical-cultural feminist perspective.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Radical Feminism

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Explain the difference between sex and gender.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Key Terms

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Women from various backgrounds were involved in the educational and social reforms during the first wave of feminism. Later during the fight for women’s suffrage, women from two other movements joined the cause. What were those two other movements? Why?

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. According to the conservative perspective, how is gender formed?

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Traditional or Conservative Perspective

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Radical feminism emphasizes the importance of what three things?

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Radical Feminism

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Explain the Madonna/whore duality. The Madonna image was primarily restricted to whom?

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Traditional Theories of Female Crime

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. List the three reasons or characteristics as to why a woman would have been deemed as “bad” in the context of traditional female criminology.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Traditional Theories of Female Crime

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. What is women’s agency?

Learning Objective: 12.6: Describe key features of feminist perspectives on understanding criminal behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Critiques of Feminist Theories

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Lombroso noted that occasional offenders could be divided into two classes. What are these two classes?

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how traditional theories of crime perceived female offenders and problems associated with traditional research methods.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cesare Lombroso: Physical Attributes of Female Offenders

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. How does Marxist feminism differ from socialist feminism?

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Marxist and Socialist Feminism

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative analyses. Design two experiments concerning females and criminality using a qualitative (1) and quantitative (2) analysis structure. Which of the two experiments do you believe has the better research structure?

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Qualitative “Versus” Quantitative Analyses

Difficulty Level: Hard

12. What is liberal feminism? Explain what the two types of liberal feminists are and a major criticism cited by the text of the liberal feminist perspective.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Identify the key features of the various feminist perspectives on gender.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Liberal Feminism

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Compare and contrast the three waves of feminism and when they occurred.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Summarize the key points associated with the history of feminism in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: A Brief History of Feminism in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Explain how power-control theory attempts to explain gender differences in delinquency rates.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Identify the main tenets of the liberation thesis.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Power-Control Theory

Difficulty Level: Hard

15. Explain the importance of reflexivity in research.

Learning Objective: 12.7: Describe some of the key policies based on feminist theories of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Policies Based on Feminist Theories of Crime

Difficulty Level: Hard