Female Criminality

Question 1

How can we generalise criminal behaviour when men & women have such differing patterns of offending

Answer 1

Heidensohn

Question 2

Girls are more likely to do better in the education system

Answer 2

Bian et al (2018)

Question 3

Advertisements confine women to maternal role or sex role

Answer 3

Elbakyan (2002)

Question 4

Damned for criminality, damned for defying gender role

Answer 4

Double Deviance

Question 5

Doesn’t explain female conformity

Answer 5

Strain & control theories of crime

Question 6

Females commit crime due to not being socialised in the stereotypical way

Answer 6

Thomas (1923)

Question 7

Unlikely that biology explains criminal behaviour, however link between menstrual cycle and offending

Answer 7

Dalton

Question 8

Female offending is mostly deceitful in nature as women are used to faking orgasms and concealing their period.

Answer 8

Pollak (1961)

Question 9

The deviant women is one who is attempting to be a man

Answer 9

Freud

Question 10

Bad women are driven by lust & penis envy.

Answer 10

Lombrosso

Question 11

Good women commit crime in a ladylike manner

Answer 11

Lombrosso

Question 12

Women’s lower crime rate is due to their lack of passion. Men, on the other hand, are driven by impulses and desires.

Answer 12

Lombrosso

Question 13

Women have lower crimes rates due to their lack of intelligence to pull off such acts.

Answer 13

Lombrosso