Crime and Devicance: Topic 5: Gender, cime and justice
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- Gender, crime and justice
- Gender patterns in crime
- 4/5 of convicted offenders in England and Wales are men
- By the age of 40, 9% of women had committed crimes vs. 39% of men
- Female crimes are less likely to be reported
- It is said that female crimes are under represented as they are not likely to be imprisoned
- The chivalry thesis - Otto Pollak - men have protective attitudes towards women
- Women are controlled in all enviroments and so are less likely to commit crimes
- Evidence against chivalry thesis - Farington and Morris - women are also given harsh sentences e.g. MC dealt with 408 offences of theft - link to shop lifting
- Bias against women - feminists - As Heidson - double standards/ As Steward - no child or husband women seen as male by courts
- Carlen - girls seen as good get no custodial sentence unlike those stereotyped
- Scottish judges are harsher with women who take less care of their kids
- Walklate - i **** cases if a women is not seen as innocent, her case will not be believable
- Women who lack respect: single mothers, punks, protestors - in court.
- Explaining female crimes
- Biological and socialisation are important when dealing with crimes of women
- Lambroso and Ferrero - few born female criminaals
- Functionalists sex role theory - boys and girls are socialised differently, social control (link)
- Parson: families
- Link to education and females +males
- Cohen: subcultural theory of lack of a role model
- New Right theorist - absence of male role model - nuclear family
- Family needs to be patriarchal
- Heidson partirachal control: home - dobash and dobash, public - police and at work - male managers
- Carlen: class and gender deal
- Class deals: women who work will be rewarded
- Gender deals: patriarchal ideology promises women material and emotional rewards from family life through conforming to dometic gender role
- Women commit crimes when both deals are nott fuffilled
- Liberation thesis
- If society is not patriarchal women and men crimes will be similar
- Alder - women become liberated from partiarchy and crimes more frequent
- Women are W//C areand are more liely to commit crimes
- Why do men commit crime?
- Ma=esserschmit - men in socioety
- Socialisation and bilogical
- Feminst - partirachy - men controlling society
- All men want to be the hegemonic masculine
- Middle class white youth
- White working class male
- Black lower working class men
- Is masculinity an explanation or description of the male offenders
- Why do men use crime to commit crimes?
- Does not explain the male crimes/types of crimes
- Why does the man need to feel in control
- Winlow: Post modernity, masculinity and crime
- Globalisation has led to a shift ifrom modern industrial society to s late modern or post modern de-inddustrialised society
- Bouncers: given jobs that link to many crimes
- Clowrd and Ohlin - hrd men eraned respect due to ability to use violence - conflict vs. criminal subcultures
- Links to boddily capital - if he looks strong, he seems that way to all that see him
- Gender patterns in crime
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