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.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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

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