Feminism and Crime Continued
A bit more feminism
- Created by: Laura Waters
- Created on: 29-12-12 16:15
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- Feminism Continued
- Evaluate - Negative
- Accused of hypocrisy as they focus too much on gender in their theory
- Criticised for understating ethnicity and class when looking at crime
- Focus on victimisation and simplifying the causes of offending
- Little scientific value, due to subjective methods and making it conscious
- Allen - Chivalry Thesis
- Argues that mental health explanations are often used to receive lighter punishment from the court or other law enforcement agency
- Leonard - Challenges the 'Chivalry Thesis' by arguing that 'bad' women are treated harsher in the media and by the courts due to double deviance
- PMS has been used as a mitigating factor in court cases even as severe as murder cases
- Evaluate - Positive
- Exposed sociology as a 'malestream' and women as being both victims and offenders of crime
- It has challenged stereotypes and illuminated sexism in theory, practice and policy
- Feminist Debates
- Radical
- Argue that to understand crime it has to be seen through a female perspective- and that all men are willing to commit crimes against women if given the chance
- Liberal
- The previous ignorance of women will bring understanding in the future
- Marxist
- Stresses the position of men and women can only be understood by the context of sexism and capitalism
- Postmodern
- Argue that the concerns of criminology are 'malestream'
- Radical
- Evaluate - Negative
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