Gender Differences and Offending
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 08-04-15 10:36
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- Gender issues and offending
- Explaining female crime
- Biological explanations
- Women have a natural desire to be nurturing and kind - both values do not support crime
- Yet hormonal and/or menstrual changes mean women drop these values and are more likely to commit crime
- Sex-role theory
- Socialisation
- Girls are brought up not to commit crime, mothers prove as good role models which girls can aspire to
- Others found if the parents were too controlling and didn't give the girl enough praise, girls would commit more crime
- Girls are brought up not to commit crime, mothers prove as good role models which girls can aspire to
- Social control
- Women have a need to conform more than men, so social control is stronger over women
- There is also more informal control on women through the media, women are expected to act "lady-like"
- Marginalisation
- The narrow range of roles for women to do means their chance to commit crime is limited
- Socialisation
- Biological explanations
- The changing liberialist theory
- Changing female roles over the years has meant that both men and women engage in risk-taking behaviour
- Women are now taking new roles such as the "ladette subculture" which means women are now in gangs and committing more crimes
- Katz
- There is pleasure is committing crime, other theories forget this
- Doing evil is motivated by the quest for a "moral self-transcendance" in the face of boredom
- Due to the position of women in society some feel pleasure from being emotionally and physically superior
- Transgression: A postmodernist critique
- The various explanations of female crime was inadequate
- So Smart introduced the idea of transgressive criminology, she suggested that criminology was a discipline tied to men
- What can criminology offer feminism?
- It can tell us why women fear to go out at night
- How domestic violence is an issue affecting 1 in 5 women during their life time
- How women are mistreated by the law in cases of **** and sexual harrasment
- What can criminology offer feminism?
- Explaining female crime
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