Gender And Crime

Question 1

Murder convictions in the uk

Answer 1

In 2011, 12.89% of those convicted of muder were male and 11% female

Question 2

Percentage of men convicted for a felony in their lifetime

Answer 2

1/3 men/ 8% female

Question 3

The chivalry thesis: Otto Pollack

Answer 3

The statistics are incorrect-women are more decietful and commit more crime than is officially acknowledged in the stats but are often treated with more lenience by the police because men have been socialised to be ‘chivalrous’ to women.
Females don’t fit police stereotypes about criminal behaviour

Question 4

Support for the chivalry thesis : hood 1992

Answer 4

Studied over 3000 court cases in which males and females were found guilty of similar crimes and found that women were 1/3 less likely to be sent to prison

Question 5

Evidence against the chivalry thesis : stephen box

Answer 5

Reviwe of uk/usa self report studies show that women who commit serious offences are not treated more leniently but instead they commit less serious offences and show remorse

Question 6

Feminist perspective -heidensohn

Answer 6

The courts treat women more harshly, this occurs when they deviate away from gender norms e.g wayward girls
However women are more likely to be controlled by their family roles and suffer discrimination in the workplace so have less time for illegal activity and less oppportunities for white collar crime.

Question 7

Pat carlen

Answer 7

Conducted a study in 1988 in 39 w/c women convicted of a range of crmes and found that they often had a weak attachment to family because they had been abused

Question 8

Adler

Answer 8

Womens liberation from patriarchy will lead to a new type of female criminal as there is a greater opportunities such as the number of women arrested for violence in the uk more than doubled between 1999 and 2008.