'Evaluate Sociological explanations of female crime'
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- 'Evaluate Sociological explanations of female crime'
- 4/5 crimes in the UK are committed by men
- Men have to keep masculinity
- Men commit more violent crimes and sexual abuse
- Men more likely to recommit crimes
- Why women commit crimes?
- Female crimes are less reported as we are socialised to go softer on females
- Even if they are reported they tend to get less harsher sentences.
- Called the Chivalry thesis (Otto Pollak (1950))
- Against Chivalry Thesis
- Self report studies shows a gender gap widens as the crime gets more serious.
- The Chivalry Thesis also ignores that a lot of male of crimes are unreported.
- Yearnshire (1997) found that women will suffer 35 assaults before reporting it.
- Carlen (1997) found a bias for women from a middle class as they would be release earlier than women from the working class.
- Feminists say that double standards exist because the justice system is patriarchal.
- Female crimes are less reported as we are socialised to go softer on females
- Masculinity
- Messerschmidt (1993) says that masculinity is a social construct of accomplishment.
- Some women may try to take this literlly
- Messerschmidt (1993) says that masculinity is a social construct of accomplishment.
- Sex roles
- Women are expected to socialise the children in a nuclear family
- This may cause frustration and cause women to start being deviant and commit crime
- Men are encouraged to be the bread winner in a nuclear family
- This may cause frustration and cause women to start being deviant and commit crime
- Women are expected to socialise the children in a nuclear family
- Heidensohn (1996) states that women are usually under patriarchal control. In the home, Public and work.
- With these restrictions this can cause females to have fewer opportunities of success.
- Class and Gender deals
- if women conform to the social norms (Functionalist) the individual will be rewarded with two deals
- Gender deals
- Patriarchal ideology that women are rewarded by emotional and material rewards.
- Class deals
- Women who work will receive material reward for their work.
- Work pay
- Women who work will receive material reward for their work.
- This can cause frustration which may cause some women to break free from the norm and commit crimes
- Gender deals
- if women conform to the social norms (Functionalist) the individual will be rewarded with two deals
- 4/5 crimes in the UK are committed by men
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