gender and crime
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- Created on: 13-06-22 00:37
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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
- PATRIARCHAL CONTROL THEORY
- 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.
- their crimes are less likely to end up in official statistics.
- men have a protective attitude towards women and thus are more lenient with their punishment
- 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
- women have two deals, the class deal and the gender deal.
- CHIVALRY THESIS
- 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
- hegemonic masculinity, dominant and prestigious form men wish to accomplish
- masculinity is an accomplishment that men constantly work at constructing and presenting to others.
- 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.
- globalisation had led to a decline in traditional manual jobs in which many working-class males could express their masculinity through
- MASCULINITY?
- women commit less crime than men
- when both deals break down, women turn to crime
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