Feminist Criminology
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- Created on: 03-04-15 10:38
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- Feminist Criminology
- Basics
- Female offenders rarely feature in early criminological work
- Early work has a set of assumptions about both gender and crime which at the core features men
- Delinquency and crime is often seen as highly unfeminie
- Feminist criminology aims to understand the nature of female offending and the treatment of women within the CJS
- the role of patriarchy in women's oppression and marginalisation, influencing the decision to commit crimes
- Women commit far fewer seriously crimes than men
- Women are also informally controlled so find it hard to deviate and commit crime
- When prosecuting women they are often viewed as being mad or have been influenced by factors that are outside of their control
- SMART
- the seperate study of men and women would lead to further marginalisation of women in research
- The increasing attention of women in research could also lead to increasing CJS attention on such actions
- Women can be seen as being doubly deviant as they not only break the law but trangress their assumed gender roles
- HEIDENSOHN
- Four characteristics to female offending
- fear and impact of deviant stigma
- heterogeneity of their offences
- the experience of double deviance and double jeopardy
- Economic rationality
- Four characteristics to female offending
- Feminist Work
- Five key elements
- gender relatinos and constructs of masculinity and femininity are not symmetrical
- gender and gender relations order social life and social institutions in fundamental ways
- Systems of knowledge reflect mens views of the social world
- gender is not a natural fact
- women should be at the centre of intellectual inquiry
- Five key elements
- Basics
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