As of June 2022, what percentage of the prison population is male and what percentage is female?
-96% male
-4% female
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Which crimes are more likely to be committed by which gender?
-Females are more likely to be convicted of propery crimes (e.g theft, shoplifting)
-Males are more likely to be convicted of violent and sexual offences
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Which perspective does sex role theory come from?
-Fuctionalist
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What is sex role theory?
-Girls and boys are socialised differently
-Socialised into gendered differences impacting criminal activity
-e.g femininity discourages criminality
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Edwin H. Sutherland (1960)
-we teahc boys to be 'rough and tough'
-thus more likely to engage in delinquent behaviour
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What perspective does control theory come from?
Feminism
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What is control theory?
-Men dominate and control women through patriarchy
-This doesn't give them the opportunity to offend
-Men aren't controlled in the same ways, so commit more crime
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Heidensohn (1985)
-women are controlled by fathers, then husbands
-lack of supervision/control by authority figures on men explains their delinquence
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Freda Adler (1975)
-Liberation thesis
-increased economic opportunities and freedom for women
-increased female crime rates
-women resembling men in employment, and now crime
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Stephen Jones (2008)
-disagrees w/ liberation thesis
-female criminals were forced into crime by controlling men under patriarchal control
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What is chivalry thesis?
-male dominated CJS
-men taught to treat women w/ chivalry
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Anderson (1976)
-Men stereotype women as naive and helpless
-makes them more likely to get away w/ offences
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Roger Hood
-studies over 3,000 defendents
-even for similar crimes women were 1/3 less likely to get jailed
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Double deviance
-Female criminals deviate in 2 ways
-Deviate from female norms of how they should behave
-Deviate from the legal rule/law
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Which crimes are more likely to be committed by which gender?
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-Females are more likely to be convicted of propery crimes (e.g theft, shoplifting)
-Males are more likely to be convicted of violent and sexual offences
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