Gender and Justice
MET CJ 660
Much recent scholarship has affirmed that women and girls are positioned within the criminal justice system in ways that are an overall detriment and disadvantage toward the interests of fairness, equity, and parity. This course will examine the myriad manifestations of sexism, misogyny, and male hegemony that are still emblematic of public representation of the criminal justice system for women. Women who are criminal justice workers, victims, arrestees and defendants, sex-workers, attorneys, and members of the client class of criminal justice consumers are routinely sexualized, objectified, and rendered waif-like and helpless, in all too familiar secondary, submissive, and subservient roles.

