Feminists say women become victims because of patriarchal attitudes
- domestic violence is the result of unequal power relationships between men and women. Radical feminists see domestic violence as a form of patriarchal power and control
- fear of crime is used to constrain women from taking a more active part in social life
- Stanko(2000) - women have to take care not to be too provocative in their behaviour and appearance
- Marxist feminists - violence explain by lack of control that men experience in capitalist workplace
- Feminists believe the law is against women and crimes against women are ignored
- Heidensohn(2002) - crimes by men against women often go unreported. She refers to this as a 'gendered crime'
- Feminists have campaigned to widen the definition of what behaviour is criminal. Campaigning for legislation against sexual harassment in the workplace
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