Crim test2

Question 1

Liberal Approach to understanding a women’s involvement in crime.

Answer 1

Differences between men and women were seen as due to gender roles and socialization patterns.

Question 2

Conservative Approach to understanding a women’s involvement in crime.

Answer 2

Women were thought to be less intelligent, less sensitive to pain, more passive, and more conservative than men

Question 3

Hirshi social control theory

Answer 3

Since women appear to be more conformist than men, it would make sense to treat women as central to his analysis.

Question 4

Lombroso theory

Answer 4

Women were thought to be less intelligent, less sensitive to pain, more passive, and more conservative than men, Female criminals were vile and cruel, lacking in “maternal instincts” and “ladylike qualities.”

Question 5

Patriarchal family (employed husband and housewife): power and control theory

Answer 5

Parents, especially mothers, control daughters more than sons.
There are large gender differences in delinquent behaviours.

Question 6

Egalitarian family (both parents employed): Hagan power and control theory

Answer 6

Parenting is more egalitarian, so daughters are less controlled.
Thus, there are smaller gender differences in delinquency.

Question 7

Feminist criminology:

Answer 7

focuses on moving women and an analysis of gender, to the center of Criminology.

Question 8

Characteristics of a criminal women

Answer 8

Characterized by inequalities of class, race, and gender.

Question 9

Secondary victimization:

Answer 9

the victimization which occurs, not as a direct result of the criminal act, but through the response of institutions and individuals to the victim.