THEORIES OF CRIME

Social Conflict Theories of Crime

Social Conflict Theories of Crime

Current thinking and presentations of culture usually consists of providing court personnel with essentialist pictures of various groups of people with suggestions on how to work with them. These pictures obscure the reality that cultures are often unstable and generalizations that lead to providing more misinformation. The essay develops a critical framwork on the issue and provides specific ways in which a more nuanced understanding of culture is helpful for court personnel as they grapple with how to work with a diverse population.( Mills, Grauwiler, 2006)

In other words, how we are socially conditioned to think in terms of male versus female roles. She goes on to state that Femininity is a lowering that is imposed and that it can done to anyone. She also discusses the fact that the practice of international relations as well as, the theories based on them, have always been gendered and that this influences politics and economic relationships according to the gender they are based on, which are currently from a male perspective. She really does not seem to go into how you could apply the Feminist theory to international relations, but she does a good job of explaining how to identify with the characteristics of genders in certain situations.

Where critical theory may be understood as a critical analysis of social institutions in order to illuminate the structure of domination and oppression (Grauwiler, 2008), feminist theory may be thought of as "an analysis of women's subordination for the purpose of figuring out how to change it" (Gordon, 1979, p. 107). Critical feminist theory is an amalgam of these two theories, seeking to reveal structural oppression, transform systems, and emancipate oppressed individuals, using gender as a key category of analysis.( Mills, 2006)

Getting interested in feminist practice, throughout ...