Gender And Crime - Class Deals Flashcards

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Class deals

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Promise of rewards
W/c women not liberated
If they work, promised material rewards and decent standards of living

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Gender deals

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Material or emotional awards
Good family life if fulfilled expectations
If no reward - frustrated - crime
W/c women in poverty - gender deal failed - poor family life / abuse - domestic violence - gave up - alcohol + drugs

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Weak attachment theory

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Radical feminist
Carlen
Weak attachment to family
They’d been abused
Run away from home
Weak attachment to paid work
Rational conclusion = crime

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Too much focus on the…

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Male of control of the class and gender deal

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Carlen’s sample was…

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Unrepresentative

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