Gender and Crime
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- Created on: 27-01-17 11:11
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- Gender and Crime
- Evidence for chivalry
- SELF REPORT STUDIES - Showed women are treated more leniently than men for similar crimes
- FARINGTON - Court Cases found evidence for chivalry for less serious offences
- Evidence against chivalry
- SMART - **** Trials law is more sympathetic to male rapists and harsh to female victims of ****
- HEIDENSON - Female Offenders claims women are treated harshly especially when they deviate from the norms of sexuality
- Reasons for male Crime
- MERSSER-SCHMITT - Masculinity -hegemonic masculinity leads males into criminal activity
- KATZ Edge Work - Refers to how males live life on the moral boundaries and enjoy the thrill of deviance
- WINLOW Changing masculinity - wc used to express their masculinity in manual labour jobs which are now in decline
- Reasons for female crime
- CARLEN - Feminisation of Poverty women are more likely to experience poverty so are motivated through economic reason
- CARLEN - Erratic Socialisation female criminals are likely to be from troubled homes so they lack adequate socialisation
- ALDER - Female Liberation Women have become more confident and ambitious in the criminal world
- DENSCAUBE - Ladette Culture Females engage in more traditionally male behaviour
- CROALL - teenage girls are motivated through interlinked factors e.g. drug habits & excitement
- Evidence for chivalry
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