Feminist Theory Differs From Other Term Paper

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Critical feminist theory cuts both ways. On the one hand, people are less likely to believe that women have committed a violent crime. On the other hand, when there is indisputable evidence that a woman has committed a violent crime, she is more likely to get a severe sentence than a man who has committed as similar crime. The most dramatic examples of this occur when parents kill their children. Just about every day in this country a father kills his child. While tragic, those crimes do not register on the national radar.In contrast, when a woman kills her child, it goes against that inherent connectedness to others that women are supposed to have. Therefore, there is a national uproar about those incidents. As a result, women who kill their children receive heavier penalties for their crimes, even though men are much more likely to kill their children.

Works Cited

West, R. Jurisprudence and Gender. (1988). In K. Bartlett (Ed.), Gender and Law: Theory,

Doctrine, Commentary (pp. 590- 592).….....

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