feminist prespective on crime and deviance
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- Created on: 03-12-12 17:15
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- feminist theories of crime and deviance
- 'malestream' and invisibility of women
- studies have generally been about male offenders and deviants. little attempt to explain female offending
- female victimisation was ignored and particularly female victimisation by men in the form of domestic and sexual violence.
- male dominance in society was refelected in a male dominance of mainstream theories of crime which was seen as malestream
- heidensohn suggests many reasons for this invisibility...
- academics and researchers of crime and deviance were prodimanantly men
- 'malestream' middle class sociologists had a kind of romanticised male preocupation with macho working class deviance
- less to study due to low level of female crime
- growth of feminist criminology
- feminist crimonology focuses on female offending, womens treatment by criminal justice system and the study of female victimization and the gender gap in offending
- importance of gender identity in understandingcrime rather than simply focusing on offending strucutral features like strain, subculutres, class or power.
- smart (1976) pointed out that women offenders are often seen as double deviants because they break the law but also the traditional gender roles too, highly stigmatised.
- feminist perspective has contributed a number of points..
- a new foucs on female offending and the experiences of women in the criminal justice system
- the application of existing theories, critcisms of them and the development of new theroies to explain female deviance
- a new focus on the various types of victimization suffered by women
- a challenge to the popular misconceptionthat women enjoy chivarlry from the criminal justice system and are treated more leniently than men
- an importnat new focus on gender and gender identity
- 'malestream' and invisibility of women
- smart (1976) pointed out that women offenders are often seen as double deviants because they break the law but also the traditional gender roles too, highly stigmatised.
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