CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Tussupkhanova, Gulim |
|---|---|
| Title | Construction of Female Criminals in Criminology (Russia and Kazakhstan) |
| Summary | The way criminologists talk in their studies about female criminality and female criminals has enormous consequences for women in terms of their experience in the criminal justice system, their treatment by state programs and legislation, and in general, their treatment and perception by culture. In my thesis I study how scholars interpret female criminality and construct female criminals through discourse analysis of current studies on female criminality of Kazakhstan and Russia, through their translation and interpretation by using various feminists’ criminological theories as a basis for critiquing and examining the data. In the process of analysis I reveal that instead of “neutrality” and “objectivity” how post-Soviet mainstream criminology presents itself, scholars study female criminality and female criminals through the lens of their own profoundly rooted purely essentialist and sexist prejudices, stereotypes and biases, including the influence of generally accepted and taken for granted patriarchal believes and double standards that underpin the discipline of criminology itself. |
| Supervisor | Judit Sandor |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/tussupkhanova_gulim.pdf |
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