Feminist studies

Question 1

Hendensohn

Answer 1

1) says criminology is malestream
2) says there are informal sanctions to stop women committing crime such as gossip and fear of a bad repuatation
3) found 3 areas where women are controlled therefore have less opportunities to commit crime (home, workplace, public
4) female offenders core highly on feminity tests

Question 2

who said that hormonal or menstual factors can cause a minority of women to commit crime

Answer 2

Dalton (1964)

Question 3

who found daughters had greater informal control than sons

Answer 3

Hagan (1987)

Question 4

Who found the bedroom subculture

Answer 4

McRobbie (1994)

Question 5

who found that girls dreams and aspirations had changed

Answer 5

SUE SHARPE 1970S - 1990S

Question 6

what did adler say

Answer 6

female crime has increased becuase of less social contorl and taking on more masculine roles

Question 7

who found that girls wer taking on male attitudes and wanted to be hard

Answer 7

DENSCOMB 2001

Question 8

who said that female identities are changing and are no longer traditional

Answer 8

westwood

Question 9

who came up with the chivalry thesus

Answer 9

pollak

Question 10

who came up with doubley deviant

Answer 10

farrington and morris 1983

Question 11

who came up with seduction of crime and who came ip with edgework

Answer 11

seduction - katz 1988

edgework - lyng 1990

Question 12

why did Smart (1977) say women crime isn’t studied

Answer 12

• malestream
• most crime committed by men
• femal crime is trivial

Question 13

who found that women from similar back grounds who commit similar crimes to men are given more leniant sentences

Answer 13

hedderman and hough (1994)

Question 14

why are women given lighter sentences than men

Answer 14

pollacks chivalry thesis

Question 15

what is one study that supports the chivalry thesis

Answer 15

hood (1989) found men are more liklely to go to prison than women

Question 16

what is 4 evidence agaisnt the chivalry thesis

Answer 16

• farrington and morris (1983) doubley deviant
• walklate (1995) found female rape victims face as harder time because they have to prove their respetability first
• smart (1997) says the criminal justice system first views women through their track record of being a mother wife and daughter and then a criminal

Question 17

what percentage of men and women recieve jail sentences on their first offence

Answer 17

women 34%

men 10%

Question 18

why do women go to prison more on thier first offence

Answer 18

doubley deviant farringotn and morris 83

Question 19

who said mc males exert power over women at work but wc men can’t so exert power through crime

Answer 19

Connel(1995)

Question 20

who said that mc boys are good at school o deviant outside or school and that wc boys dont have mch chance at school so act tough with teachers

Answer 20

messerschmidt

Question 21

what are the 6 causes of female crime

Answer 21

• dalton (1964) said that hormonal and menstrual factors can cause it
• adler (1975) - womens liberation means more maduline roles e.g the ladette
• box and hale said its because of part time work, unemployment and bad welfare state as most female criminals are working class
• denscombe 2001 found girls want to be hard which is a criminal characteristic
• westwood said female identity is no longer fixed and is changing
• jones 2008 said women have more freedom from male control so commit more crime

Question 22

who said women have more freedom from male control so commit more crime

Answer 22

jones 2008

Question 23

why are women less likely to commit crime

Answer 23

biological - women are more nurturing

• socialisation teaches women to be nurturing
• social control hagan mcrobbie heindensohn

Question 24

example of women getting away with crime

Answer 24

victorian poisoners

Question 25

example of doubley deviant

Answer 25

myra hindley got a harsher sentence than male accomplances