Crime & Deviance- Gender
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- Created on: 24-04-19 13:15
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- Crime & Deviance- Gender
- Pollack ('50)
- OCS underestimate female criminals
- Were unreported & unrecorded
- I.e. Prostitution, shoplifting, etc
- 'Masked female offender'
- Smart ('76)
- Females commit less crime
- If so is trivial nature
- Heidensohn ('85)
- CJS influened by gender attitudes.
- Women treated harshly when deviating from norms
- I.e. sexually promiscuous girls taken into care whereas boys not.
- Parsons ('95)
- Different socialisation
- Encourages criminal behaviour in boys
- Boys- Competitive, Physical, Aggressive
- Girls- Caring, Reserved, Conformist
- Pollack ('50)
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