Gender and Crime names
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- Gender and Crime (Names)
- Chivalry Thesis
- Otto Pollak 1950
- Argues that men have a protective attitude towards women and that ‘men hate to accuse women and thus send them to their punishment’
- Graham and Bowling 1995
- Found that although males were more likely to offend, the difference was smaller than that recorded in the official statistics.
- Flood-Page et. al 2000
- Evidence against the chivalry thesis
- Farrington and Morris 1983
- Found that women were not sentenced more leniently for comparable offences.
- Steven Box 1981
- If women are treated more leniently, it is because their offences are less serious.
- Heidensohn 1996
- Courts treat women more harshly when they deviate gender norms.
- Farrington and Morris 1983
- Otto Pollak 1950
- Functionalist Sex Role Theory
- Talcott Parsons 1955
- Factors such as gender roles and access to role models means that boys are more disposed to commit acts of violence.
- The New Right View
- Argue that the absence of a male role model in lone parent families leads to boys turning to criminal street gangs as a source of status.
- Criticisms
- Walklate 2003
- Talcott Parsons 1955
- Frances Heidensohn 1985
- Dobash and Dobash 1979
- Sue Lees 1993
- Notes that in schools, boys maintain control through sexualised verbal abuse for example labelling girls as slags if they fail to conform to gender role expectations.
- The Liberation Thesis
- Freda Adler 1985
- Women’s liberation and offending behaviour Argues that as women become liberated from patriarchy, their crimes will become as frequent and as serious as men’s.
- Freda Adler 1985
- Patriarchal control theory
- Frances Heidensohn 1985
- Dobash and Dobash 1979
- Sue Lees 1993
- Notes that in schools, boys maintain control through sexualised verbal abuse for example labelling girls as slags if they fail to conform to gender role expectations.
- The Liberation Thesis
- Freda Adler 1985
- Women’s liberation and offending behaviour Argues that as women become liberated from patriarchy, their crimes will become as frequent and as serious as men’s.
- Freda Adler 1985
- Frances Heidensohn 1985
- James Messerschmidt 1993
- He argues that masculinity is a social construct or accomplishment and men constantly have to work at constructing and presenting it to others
- Winlow 2001
- Chivalry Thesis
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