female crime Flashcards
how is the liberation thesis supported?
-increase in female arrests and convicitons
-females increasingly committing male crimes
how can we use klein and pearce and pitts as an evaluation?
-klein= suggests female GM’s commit equally violent acts as their male counterparts
-p&p stated that although female gangs are less evident in the uk theres estimated 12,500 young women w involvement in gangs
how can we use harding as evaluation?
-girls use social skills in gangs to carve out a role for themselves
-hide weapons and drugs for the gang
-form of ‘street capital’
how can we use thompson as evaulation
-media exaggerated increase in female crime and violence
-caused a moral panic
-small rises in recorded crime created a moral panic ab female offending and girl gangs
Moving into a masculine world- Choak
1.why are men more likely to be associated with crime and criminality
-some types of crime cannot be imagined without presence of men
-often associated w serious crimes
- what ideas ab masc and fem were constructed in victorian era
-males- work orietnatted and rational
-females = deemed for the home life
- how has gender roles constructed how ppl view female criminals
-their crimes seen as doubly deviant and rebellious
-against traditonal ideas of female
-in need of psychological treatment
- what hv feminist criminologists attempted to do
-emerge to draw attention to invisubility of young women in CJS
5.Why is using the term ‘gang’ problematic
-impossible to find definiton to fit all grps
-mistakenly targeted term at young black boys
-some labelled as this without their knowledge
-young ppl targets of the police
- what is the problem w previous research into subclutres and gangs in terms of female coverage
-focused mainly on men
-hard to find info on women
-yng women presented as sexual object peripheral to main action
- what did Choak find in her research into females and gangs , and how is it diff
-females may also be involved in drug dealing and street grp leaders
-they can also be violent
- how did choak research become similar to postmodrnist katz to why ppl commit crime
-some women get the buzz out of being seen as tough and hard
- if we applied choaks findings to the honeytrap case what might it suggest
-setting people up associated w females
-this idea that women emplay their sexuality to lure men
