Crime and Deviance - Gender - Control theory
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- Created on: 27-03-15 12:41
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- Control Theory - Heidensohn
- The control of women by men discourages deviance from norms.
- Women still have primary responsibility for raising children and domestic work, which involves a commitment to conformity.
- At Home
- Women's domestic role imposes severe restriction on their time and confines them to the house, reducing opportunities to offend.
- Men control their wives through financial power, denying them funds for leisure activities and thus restricting their time outside the house.
- Dobash and Dobash found many violent attacks result from mens dissatisfaction with their wives performance of domestic duties
- Daughters too are subject to patriarchal control
- Not allowed to stay out late
- Develop a bedroom culture (invite friends round)
- So they have less opportunity to engage in deviant behaviour
- Expected to do more housework
- So they have less opportunity to engage in deviant behaviour
- Develop a bedroom culture (invite friends round)
- Expected to do more housework
- Not allowed to stay out late
- In Public Spaces
- Controlled in public by the threat of male violence against them, especially sexual violence.
- Islington crime survey found that 54% of women avoided going out after dark due to fear of crime
- Females are controlled in public by fear of being defined as not respectable
- May avoid going to pubs on their own out of fear of being regarded as sexually loose.
- Sue Lees - boys control girls in school through sexualised verbal abuse, if a girl fails to conform to gender expectations
- Controlled in public by the threat of male violence against them, especially sexual violence.
- At work
- Women's behaviour is often controlled by male managers and supervisors. Sexual harassment is widespread and helps keep women in their place
- The glass ceiling prevents women from rising to senior positions where there is greater opportunity to commit white collar crimes
- Evaluation
- Carlen - Female crime as a response to patriarchy
- Conducted in-depth interviews with working class women aged 15-46 who were convicted of a range of offences
- To these women crime appeared a rational choice (advantages outweighed the disadvantages).
- Their experience of low payed work and unemployment left them not living the lifestyle they hoped for
- They also had unhappy and unfulfilling family life, some had been abused.
- This means they saw crime as rational and certain types of crime, for example, shoplifting and cheque fraud were seen as easy.
- Their experience of low payed work and unemployment left them not living the lifestyle they hoped for
- They also had unhappy and unfulfilling family life, some had been abused.
- This means they saw crime as rational and certain types of crime, for example, shoplifting and cheque fraud were seen as easy.
- This means they saw crime as rational and certain types of crime, for example, shoplifting and cheque fraud were seen as easy.
- They also had unhappy and unfulfilling family life, some had been abused.
- Their experience of low payed work and unemployment left them not living the lifestyle they hoped for
- This means they saw crime as rational and certain types of crime, for example, shoplifting and cheque fraud were seen as easy.
- They also had unhappy and unfulfilling family life, some had been abused.
- Their experience of low payed work and unemployment left them not living the lifestyle they hoped for
- To these women crime appeared a rational choice (advantages outweighed the disadvantages).
- Conducted in-depth interviews with working class women aged 15-46 who were convicted of a range of offences
- Carlen - Female crime as a response to patriarchy
- The control of women by men discourages deviance from norms.
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