Heidensohn: patriarchal control - explaining female crime
- Created by: rebeccamellors
- Created on: 24-11-16 10:23
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- Heidensohn: Patriarchal Control
- Patriarchal society imposes greater control over women & this reduces their opportunities to offend
- Control at Home
- Women's domestic role imposes severe restrictions on their time & movement & confines them to the house for long periods, reducing opportunities to offend
- Dobas & Dobash (1979) show many violent attacks result from men's dissatisfaction with their wives performance of domestic duties
- Daughters are also subject to patriarchal control
- Girls are less likely to be allowed to come & go as they please or to stay out late
- They develop a 'bedroom culture' socialising at home rather than public so less opportunity to engage in deviant behaviour
- Control In Public
- Women are controlled by the threat/fear of male violence against them, especially sexual violence
- Sensational media reporting of rapes adds to women's fear
- Also controlled in public by their fear of being defined as not respectable
- Sue Lee (1993) school boys maintain control through sexualised verbal abuse
- Control at Work
- Women's behaviour at work is controlled by male supervisors & managers
- Sexual harassment helps keep women 'in their place'
- Women's subordinate position reduces their opportunities to engage in major criminal activity at work
- The 'glass ceiling' prevents women from rising to senior positions where this greater opportunity to commit crime
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