Gender and crime Flashcards
What is chivalry thesis?
The view that women are treated more favourably by the criminal justice system - more lenient sentencing - because its male dominated and stereotypes women as being less deviant and threatening and thus lets them, get away with more.
Hood found women are a third less likely to be jailed for a similar offence to men.
What is the class deal & gender deal?
Carlen: women don’t commit crimes as they don’t want to lose their current societal position.
Class deal: material rewards from work allowing people to purchase consumer goods
Gender deal: awards from fulfilling their role at home, with material and emotional support from a male breadwinner.
What is patriarchal control?
Women are conformists and choose not to commit crimes because they have learned to have less freedom due to being more heavily controlled at home, work and in public spaces e.g. daughters are given stricter curfews.
what is gender role socialisation?
Boys and girls are socialised differently from all social institutions. Girls are taught to be submissive and caring as well as defining success on how sexually attractive they look. Boys are taught to be dominant and competitive and define success on winning
What is sex role theory?
The view that gendered differences in behaviour comes from role models in the family. Men learn the instrumental role and dominance whereas women learn the expressive role and caring characteristics. The former leads to crime, the latter does not.
Why do males commit more crimes than women?
Early socialisation
male peer pressure encouraging risk taking
socialisation into being breadwinner/provider making them more competitive and violent.
How can you link women and crime to social control?
Heidensohn
Women have more to lose than men due to social stigma and shame which accompanies female committed crime. They both break the ;aw and act in an unfeminine way causing double the criticism men have.
what evidence is there against chivalry thesis?
Women are more likely to get harsher punishments if committing a crime which goes against the socially constructed maternal view of women e.g. paedophilia
Is there evidence to support growing female criminality?
Between 2004 - 2007 crime committed by girls raised by 25%
Attacks and murders go up from 6,937 in 1998 to 12, 573 in 2007
