Explaining the relationship of gender and crime
- Created by: Rhiannon Gillard2
- Created on: 03-11-16 09:16
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- Relationship between gender and crime
- women get away with offending
- Hormones and menstrual cycles cause emotional disturbance and low self-esteem
- use their home environment to conceal their crimes and prefer professions like maids, nurses and teachers
- Biological explanations for gender difference in criminality
- Lombroso
- criminality is due to biological anomalies
- some females are born savage and show masculine traits
- Thomas
- men and women have different personalities men are active and women are more passive and therefore commit fewer crimes
- women require social approval and affection from men
- Lombroso
- Functionalist explanations: sex role theory
- Sutherland
- there are clear gender differences when it comes to solicitation
- if some women become deviant, it may be because hey are socilaised in a masculine way
- Parsons
- gender rules within the nuclear family
- girls; have a constant access to their role model
- boys; have a status anxiety and have difficulties identifying with the same sex
- gender rules within the nuclear family
- Sutherland
- Feminist explanations
- Smart
- girls are more controlled on how they go out and with whom they go out with
- Women are more likely to commit fewer crimes because of their gender roles
- Smart
- rates in female criminality
- Jackson- there is more prevalence and acceptance of laddish behaviour from girls
- Gelsthope; attributed the 150% rise of females in prison 1994-2004
- women get away with offending
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