gender and crime

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  • gender and crime
    • women commit less crime than men
      • PATRIARCHAL CONTROL THEORY
        • Heidensohn argues women have at least one male figure in their life who does not want them to commit crime.
      • FUNCTIONALIST SEX ROLE THEORY
        • Parsons argues that due to their biology and the way they are socialised, women are nurturing by nature, and therefore are incapable or do not want to commit crime
    • women committing crime
      • CHIVALRY THESIS
        • men have a protective attitude towards women and thus are more lenient with their punishment
          • their crimes are less likely to end up in official statistics.
            • women are more likely to be ‘let off’ for crimes such as speeding.
      • LIBERATION THESIS
        • women are now becoming much more equal in society with men, therefore they now commit more crime.
      • CLASS AND GENDER DEALS
        • women have two deals, the class deal and the gender deal.
          • The class deal is that if they work hard they will be financially rewarded in life.
          • gender deal is that if they are a good mother and wife they will be treated well
    • why men commit more crime than women
      • MASCULINITY?
        • masculinity is an accomplishment that men constantly work at constructing and presenting to others.
          • hegemonic masculinity, dominant and prestigious form men wish to accomplish
            • crime and deviance is a resource that different men may use to accomplish masculinity
      • GLOBALISATION
        • globalisation had led to a decline in traditional manual jobs in which many working-class males could express their masculinity through
          • there has been an increase in the night-time leisure economy which has provided a combination of legal employment and criminal opportunities to express masculinity.
  • when both deals break down, women turn to crime

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