Gender Diversity and the Criminal Justice System
- Created by: Emma
- Created on: 03-04-15 09:08
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- Gender Diversity and the CJS
- CJS
- Courts can be harsher on women
- Double standard
- Was created for men
- Sentencing
- Women offend less than men
- Gendered treatment in court
- Chivalry Theory
- Double deviance
- Should women receive the same sentencing as men?
- More women on probation
- Double discrimination
- Offending
- Women are less likely to be arrested
- Women convicted of theft more
- Increase in women and drug offences
- Girls more involved in violent offences
- Prison
- The cost of women's imprisonment
- Women friendly prisons
- Corston Report
- Women receive shorter sentences
- Pains of imprisonment
- Victimisation
- Women are more likely to be victims in the home
- Women's attackers are people they know
- Violence against women under reported
- Roles within the CJS
- Male dominated
- Glass ceiling
- Women in low status positions
- CJS
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