Female Offending & Diversity

Question 0

Generalizability problem

Answer 0

Fitting women into theories based on men’s & boys experiences

• woman’s issues ignored until 1970s
• woman seen as driven to crime due to biological influences

Question 1

Finish: “The _______ woman”

Answer 1

Invisible

Question 2

Females are more likely to run away and what other two things?

Females _______.
Males externalize.

Answer 2

To use drugs and to cut themselves.

Woman are nurtures so they hold a lot inside, females internalize.

Question 3

Gendered organization

Answer 3

Institutions that have their thinking & Symbols of gender in their processes, practices, distribution in power, images & ideaologies

EX. Female cops are looked at as weak.

Question 4

Sexism

Answer 4

Oppressive attitudes & behaviors directed at either sex

Question 5

Patriarchy

Answer 5

A social, legal & political climate that values male dominance & hierarchy

Question 6

Gender related crimes

Answer 6

More likely to be committed by one sex than the other

Question 7

(Gender related crimes) female gender offenses:

Answer 7

Mostly prostitution

Question 8

Gender stability

Answer 8

Same but not same pace

Question 9

Gender divergence

Answer 9

Starts off the same then pairs off to be different

Question 10

Gender convergence

Answer 10

Starting off different then comes to be the same

Question 11

Stability

Answer 11

Forcible rape, possession of weapons

Question 12

Convergence

Answer 12

Most common pattern.

-Changes in data collection

Question 13

(Convergence) changes in law enforcement:

Answer 13

War on drugs, labeling, etc.

Question 14

Divergence

Answer 14

Murder, nonnegligent manslaughter & running away

Question 15

Black woman are given the maximum bail.

Pre trial release:

Answer 15

Black woman are less likely to get this than whites

-having kids helps but only for women

Question 16

War on drugs.

Conflict theory:

Answer 16

Powder coke vs crack cocaine

-poor vs wealthy

Question 17

(War on drugs) Fair sentencing act of 2010

Answer 17

• “crack mothers” were believed to choose the drug over welfare of baby
• charged w/delivery of controlled substance to a minor, child abuse, murder
• women partners often hide bf drugs, women often loyal so they serve time instead

Question 18

Social constructs of black women: (4)

-victimization:

Answer 18

• the mammy
• the matriarch
• welfare mom
• the hoochie

(Rape) often caused by seduction.

Question 19

The mammy

Answer 19

Takes care of kids , nurturing

Question 20

The matriarch

Answer 20

Emasculates men, powerful

Question 21

Welfare mom

Answer 21

Lazy, Spanish

Question 22

The hoochie/Jezebel

Answer 22

Black & sexual, pushy

Question 23

Latinas & women of color:

Result:

Answer 23

Spanish speaking

• women are hot blooded & sexual
• machismo & submissive (either take control or they do whatever to please the man)

Result: Cj sees violence as the culture.

Question 24

Asian cultures:

Answer 24

• women are exotic
• associated with sex work
• men and women seen as weak
• women more passive (violence:turns more towards males than females)

Question 25

Impact of stereotypes

Answer 25

Woman are discouraged from divulging their victimizations (not allowed to talk about what happens to them)

Question 26

Gender entrapment:

Answer 26

Battered black women

-women who protect themselves are presented as assertive & angry black women

Question 27

(Sex discrimination)
Equal treatment (null) hypothesis

Answer 27

Males and females treated the same

Question 28

(Sex discrimination)

Chivalry/paternalism hypothesis

Answer 28

Female treated more leniently for protection

Question 29

(Sex discrimination)

Evil woman hypothesis

Answer 29

Females treated more harshly because they violated gender roles and laws.

EX. Her killing her kids.
Too much like a man considered evil & aggressive

Question 30

Battered woman syndrome

Answer 30

Battered women, the longer the abuse the harsher it is

Question 31

(Chivalry hypothesis)

Typicality hypothesis

Answer 31

Female treated chivalrous when charges consistent with gender stereotypes

EX. White woman with higher education=more chivalry

Question 32

(Chivalry hypothesis)

Selectivity hypothesis

Answer 32

Chivalrous treatment to white females

Question 33

(Chivalry hypothesis)

Differential discretion hypothesis)

Answer 33

Stages of the system; chivalrous treatment is informal decision