Explaining Female Crime 3

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  • Explaining Female Crime 3
    • Females & Violent Crime
      • One trend in the official stats that seems to support Adler's liberation thesis is the increase in female arrest and convictions for violent crime
        • According to Hand and Dodd (2009) between 2000 and 2008 police stats show the number of females arrested for violence rose by an average of 17% annually
          • If these stats are correct it suggests that females are increasingly committing 'male' violent crime
    • The Criminalisation of Females
      • In the USA Steffensmeier and Schwarts (2009) found that while the female share of arrests for violent crime grew from 1/5 to 1/3 between 1980 and 2003, this rise was not matched by the findings of victim surveys
    • Moral Panic About Girls
      • Some sociologists argue that females' participation in violent crime is socially constructed
        • Burman and Batchelor (2009) point to the media depictions of young women as being "drunk and disorderly, out of control and looking for fights"
      • Reports of girls binge drinking and girl gangs may be affecting the criminal justice system
        • Sharpe (2009) found that people such as judges or police officers were influenced by media stereotypes of violent 'ladettes' and many believed that girls' behaviour was rapidly getting worse
      • The overall effect of moral panic about girls is a self fulfilling prophecy and an amplification spiral

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