Grime and gender
- Created by: Rachellowe
- Created on: 16-04-18 17:45
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- Gender and crime
- Convictions
- Women make up only 5% of the prison population
- 16% of those arrested and 24% of defendants were women (2011-12)
- If guilty women were more likely to be fined than men
- But... less likely to be sent to prison
- Women are generally given shorter sentences than men
- Chivalry thesis
- Pollak - men are socialised to be protective of women
- Most of the CJS is male so they are more likely to treat women more leniently
- Allows female activity to go unchecked and so may distort statistics
- But... women's crimes are often less serious so men will receive harsher punishments
- Women show remorse so may be treated more leniently
- Sex role theory
- Girls are brought up to be passive and conformist
- Boys are socialised to be manly and agressive
- Heidensohn = men are more likely to commit crimes of violence
- Carlen = courts treated women differently depending on how they conformed to gender roles
- I.e. good mothers were less likely to be jailed than women without children/ children in care.
- Social control
- Abbott and Wallace = Young women are more closely watched by their family and given less freedom
- Women are encouraged to dress and behave appropriately to avoid judgement from society
- In the workplace managers/ bosses are often male
- The crimes women do commit tend to be related to their role in the home as mother etc.
- I.e shoplifting
- They often dont have access to white collar crime
- The liberation thesis
- Adler - as society become less patriarchal, women's crime rates increase
- Westwood = female identities are changing and women are adopting more male characteristics
- WC women benefit least from the liberation thesis yet they commit the most majority of female crimes
- Convictions
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