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Explain how Feminists apply related ideas and concepts to the study of the family and the study of crime and deviance.
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... A2 SOCIOLOGY: CRIME AND DEVIANCE MODULE Explain how Feminists apply related ideas and concepts to the study of the family and the study of crime and deviance. (30 marks) New approaches to crime and deviance are partly a reaction to the short - comings of previous approaches, partly a reflection of changing academic and political priorities, partly a response to changing fashions. Previous approaches have neglected certain social categories. In the case of gender (and ethnicity) this neglect has now ended and research in these areas have developed. Frances Heidensohn wrote (1989) 'Gender is on the agenda'. She is one of the most influential feminist sociologists of crime. Yet only in the last twenty years, has the simultaneous neglect of women and distorted analysis of the female offender been challenged. In the 'pre-history' of gender and crime, before the emergence of the feminist perspective women were largely invisible in sociological research. In the past
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