Gender Flashcards
Heidensohn
Women have at least 1 male role model in their life who does not want them to commit crime (PATRIARCHAL CONTROL THEORY)
Parsons
Women are nuturing by nature and the way they are socialised are incapable of committing crime
Pollak
Chivalry Thesis - Men have a protective attitude towards women and are thus more lenient, more likely to get away with low level crimes (e.g speeding)
Adler
Liberation thesis - Women gaining more more equal in society with men therefore committing more crimes
Carlen
Class and Gender deal - When women are not financialy rewarded or treated well they return to crime
Messerschmidt
Masculinity is an accomplishment that men constantly work at constructing and presenting to others , men use crime as a tool to complete this - HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY
Winlow
Globalisation has lead to a decline in masculine working class jobs they can show masculinity through.