Feminism and Crime
Not everything, but a lot of the feminism content.
- Created by: Laura Waters
- Created on: 29-12-12 15:12
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- Feminism and Crime
- Deferential Socialisation
- Socialised into a pattern of values which stress that women are not violent or aggressive etc.
- Social Control
- Expected to base themselves in the home
- Male monopoly of violence - women discouraged from violence
- The reputation of a woman is at risk of being labelled
- Opportunity to Commit Crime
- Shielded from opportunities to commit crime
- Surveillance
- Limited career
- In the home more often than men
- Shielded from opportunities to commit crime
- Malestream and invisibility of women
- Ignored by male dominant sociologists
- Victimisation of domestic or sexual abuse ignored by statistics
- Victimisation of domestic or sexual abuse ignored by statistics
- Ignored by male dominant sociologists
- Heidensohn - Patriarchal Control Theory
- Lower crime rates because woman live more constrained lives
- Crime by women is often seen as double deviance as it is also unfeminine.
- Malestream and invisibility of women
- Ignored by male dominant sociologists
- Ignored by male dominant sociologists
- Messerschmidt - The Importance of 'Masculinity''
- The main motivation behind crime committed by men is to show their masculinity
- Hegemonic and subordinate mascuilinity
- Carlen - Control Theory
- Working-class women have to make the 'class deal' and 'gender deal'
- Women will conform to these 'deals', but most likely in 'respectable' homes with a male breadwinner and female carer
- Smart - Transgression
- Self-imposed curfews, treatment of women as victims and the fear of crime.
- Looked at how women were treated in the legal system with cases of **** etc
- How does criminology affect feminists?
- Deferential Socialisation
- Self-imposed curfews, treatment of women as victims and the fear of crime.
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