Gender and crime
This can be used to answer 50 marker questions such as:
- Outline and assess the relationship between gender and crime.
- Outline and assess socilogical explanations for higher crime rates in men.
- Outlne and assess socilogical explantions for lower crime rates in women
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- Created on: 17-05-15 17:44
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- Gender and crime
- Introduction
- Only 20% of crime is committed by women.
- Why do women commit less crime?
- Social control
- Mcrobbie - Bedroom subculture. girls are kept in their rooms to socialise while boys are allowed to go out more and spend time with their friends
- Sue Lees- The language used towards girls is different eg princess, sweetheart. this suggests that they are vunerable
- Chivalry thesis
- The idea that the police and the courts are more lenient towards women because they are seen as incapable of committing a crime or they seem innocent.
- Social control
- why do women commit crime? is this increasing?
- Liberation
- Francis Adler- Many women now take on male roles which means that they are more likely to take part in male criminal activity.
- Denscombe- researchj on young women showed that they adopted stereotypically male looks and behavior to get respect
- supported by John pitts
- Economic marginalisation
- box and Hale - women face high rates of unemployment and inadequate welfare benefits
- Female convicts scored highly on femininity tests
- Lack of control
- Pat Carlen - 39 working class who were criminals. They had broken down social mechanisms
- Liberation
- Why do men commit more crime
- Young boys are socialised to be dominant and aggressive.
- Msserschmidt- masculinity has be accomplished. Some men cannot assert thier power due to the decline in the labour industry so they resort to violence.
- Katz- pleasure is gained from taking part in criminal activities
- Matza- boys are unsure of their role and place in society so they tend to drift in and out of society and this leads to crime.
- Introduction
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