Wk11 - Gender & Violence

Assigned Readings:

• 1. Anderson, CH9: Gender, Crime, and Deviance

  2. Women and Incarceration (http://tinyurl.com/gqjnnze)

  3. This Is Why Women Are the Fastest-Growing Prison Population (http://tinyurl.com/zhb4vsu)

  4. Assigned Readings:

  5. Andersen, CH9: Gender, Crime, and Deviance (pg. 273-282-- sections on women as victims of crime)

  6. Kimberle Crenshaw - Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color (http://tinyurl.com/jd8fe8u) 

  7. Ritchie - Battered Women of Color in Public Health Care Systems: Racism, Sexism, and Violence (http://tinyurl.com/jh2wy7t) 

  8. API data

  9. Megan L. Haselschwerdt (2016) Managing Secrecy and Disclosure of Domestic Violence in Affluent Communities

  10. Robin Warshaw - I Never Called it Rape (http://tinyurl.com/hhmm3su) 

  11. Mellins, CA - 2017 - Sexual assault incidents among college undergraduates: Prevalence and factors associated with risk (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5695602/) 

  12. Valenti, J. - 2014 - Frat brothers rape 300% more. One in 5 women is sexually assaulted on campus. Should we ban frats? (The Guardian, Wed 24 Sep 2014 07.30 EDT) (https://tinyurl.com/y4jmah3e) 

  13. Tim Benke blog post - Men on Rape (http://ideatrash.net/2009/03/on-men-on-rape.html)

Men as Victims of Sexual Violence

• 1. When Men Are Raped (http://tinyurl.com/npcuwkk)

  2. Lara Stemple and Ilan H. Meyer. The Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old Assumptions. American Journal of Public Health: June 2014, Vol. 104, No. 6, pp. 19-26.(9pgs) (http://tinyurl.com/hdwdrfm) 

New Media and Violence

• 1. Gamergate

     • Dewey, Caitlin. (October 14, 2014) “The only guide to Gamergate you will ever need to read,” The Washington Post. 

     • https://nyti.ms/2N7VpMk (series of NYT articles on GamerGate and intersectionality and the media)

  2. There’s No Comparing Male and Female Harassment Online (http://tinyurl.com/ppnytv4) 

  3. Let's Call Trolling What it Is (http://tinyurl.com/nshjgcr)

Some stats:

• 1. statistics Sexual Violence from RAINN (http://tinyurl.com/hpwax6p)

  2. rape statistics from Hathor Legacy (http://tinyurl.com/z4p2ly4) 

Suggested (NOT REQUIRED)

• • Yancey-Martin - Fraternities and Rape on Campus (http://tinyurl.com/hrm7t32)

  • Johnson, NL - 2017 - An Empirical Exploration Into the Measurement of Rape Culture

  • Masho - 2009 - Sexual assault in men: a population-based study of Virginia, Victims and Victimization (http://tinyurl.com/jyp82tn) 

PPT

Prison Policy Initiative 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/10/28/prisons-jails-are-designed-men-can-we-build-better-womens-prison/ 

Incarcerated Women and Girls

• • between 1980 and 2017, incarcerated women increased by more than 750%

  • incarcerated (in jail, state prison, or federal prison) women = 225,060 women 

  • population growth rate has been twice as high as that of men since 1980