Carlen: Class and Gender deals
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- Carlen: Class and Gender Deals
- 1988 - unstructured tape recorded interviews
- study of 39 15-46 y/o w/c women that have been convicted of a range of crimes
- Some middle class offenders, but serious crimes are committed by working class
- Uses Hirschi's (1969) control theory to explain female crime
- Hirschi - humans act rationally and are controlled by a deal of rewards
- People turn to crime if they do not believe in the reward
- W/C women are led to conform on 2 things:
- Class Deal: work allows material rewards, standard living and leisure opportunities
- Gender Deal: Patriarchal ideology - material and emotional rewards to family life
- Class Rewards not available, crime is more likely
- 32 are in poverty
- Gain qualifications in jail, no help outside of prison
- Experienced problems trying to claim benefits
- Gender Rewards not available
- Sexually or physically abused, subjected to domestic violence
- Over half spent time in care, broke bonds in family
- Running away or leaving care = homeless, unemployed, poor
- Carlen concludes, women that are poor, brought up in care or an oppressive family, went into crime
- Being jailed made the class deal even less available to them and crime more attractvie
- EVALUATION
- Heidensohn - patriarchal controls help women from deviating
- Carlen - failure of these promised deals, removes the controls that prevent them from offending
- 1988 - unstructured tape recorded interviews
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