Feminist studies Flashcards
Hendensohn
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
who said that hormonal or menstual factors can cause a minority of women to commit crime
Dalton (1964)
who found daughters had greater informal control than sons
Hagan (1987)
Who found the bedroom subculture
McRobbie (1994)
who found that girls dreams and aspirations had changed
SUE SHARPE 1970S - 1990S
what did adler say
female crime has increased becuase of less social contorl and taking on more masculine roles
who found that girls wer taking on male attitudes and wanted to be hard
DENSCOMB 2001
who said that female identities are changing and are no longer traditional
westwood
who came up with the chivalry thesus
pollak
who came up with doubley deviant
farrington and morris 1983
who came up with seduction of crime and who came ip with edgework
seduction - katz 1988
edgework - lyng 1990
why did Smart (1977) say women crime isn’t studied
- malestream
- most crime committed by men
- femal crime is trivial
who found that women from similar back grounds who commit similar crimes to men are given more leniant sentences
hedderman and hough (1994)
why are women given lighter sentences than men
pollacks chivalry thesis
what is one study that supports the chivalry thesis
hood (1989) found men are more liklely to go to prison than women
what is 4 evidence agaisnt the chivalry thesis
- 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
what percentage of men and women recieve jail sentences on their first offence
women 34%
men 10%
why do women go to prison more on thier first offence
doubley deviant farringotn and morris 83
who said mc males exert power over women at work but wc men can’t so exert power through crime
Connel(1995)
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
messerschmidt
what are the 6 causes of female crime
- 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
who said women have more freedom from male control so commit more crime
jones 2008
why are women less likely to commit crime
biological - women are more nurturing
- socialisation teaches women to be nurturing
- social control hagan mcrobbie heindensohn
example of women getting away with crime
victorian poisoners
