Gender Flashcards
Pollak
Male idiot
- Females commit crime but different types of crime.
- Women have low self esteem and emotional disturbance due to hormones.
- Females are biologically more deviant and concieve menstruation and fake orgasm.
- females recieve leanient treatment more than males from the law.
- Women are masterminds and manipulate them to do their dirty work, avoiding arrest.
-** EG) Griselda blanco- manipulates to do work and killed husbands ‘the black widow’. ** - Use home and gender typical jobs to conceal crime.
Smart
Pollak AO3
Feminism
- Pollaks views are oversimplified and contains oudated views on the patriacrhy.
- Argues against biological determinism.
- Blames womens nature without considering or understanding why criminal behaviour mught be shaped by social factors or structural inequalities such as economic deprivation and gendered oppurtunities.
Walklate
Feminism
Pollak AO2
- Female rape victims face a tough system rather then chivalrous court system.
- hard to win rape cases
Chivalry Thesis
male idiot
- Women are treated better by the criminal justic system because they are seen as vunerable and childlike.
- Females are not fully responsible for ctions because male officers let them off.
-** EG) male judges sentence more leniantly to women. ** - Speed + Burrows
- Male offenders were 2* likely to recieve a custodial sentence then females.
Klein
Chivalry Thesis AO3
Chivalry thesis is:
Racist, classist and is only applicable to white middle class women.
Heidensohn
Feminism
Chivalry AO3
Only applicable to women who fit the stereotype of femininity. eg)crying
- not treated harsher
- female sentences are more likely to inolve mitagatity factors then males.
Hedderman and Gunby
Chivalry AO3
Feminism
Judges recognise females have complex problems.
- Relate to relationship
Lombroso
male idiot
-Males are genetically more likely to offend theen women.
- women are naturally passive, lack intelligence or inititave to break the law.
- some women are likely to have masculine traits.
Messerschmidt
male idiot
- Dominant cultural ideas of masculinity.
- Characterised by strength, dominance.
- Males feel pressure to achieve hegemonic masculinity
- Can be acomplished in different ways.
- Youth crime is a way for doing masculinity when legitimate are unavailable.
Winlow
male idiot
(Agrees with messerschmidt)
-Supports messerschmidt
- male offending is because the crisis of masculinity.
- studied w/c males in Sunderland during mass unemployment in the 1980s, thye lost breadwinner status and did violence for expression and security.
Chesney-Lind
Sexual behaviour in girls more than boys was sactioned with training school.
- Women are demonised when they break female stereotypes.
Sex role theory
male idiot
- Gendered differences in offending due to differences in gender socialisation.
- norms associated with feminity are not conductive to crime.
- masculinity leads to crime.
Parsons
- Females carry out expressive role. less likely to harm others have attatched to family.
Farrington and Morris
Feminism
Chivalry thesis AO3
- more likely to be first time offenders, plead guilty, less violent.
