Gender And Crime: Explaining Female Criminality

Question 1

Carlen

Answer 1

Studied 39 female convicts

Question 2

Class deals

Answer 2

Women who work will be rewarded financially + materially

Question 3

Gender deals

Answer 3

Women are told if they have a marriage + children it will make women happy

Question 4

Study

Answer 4

Women in her study did not achieve these deals, struggled with financial problems due to poor qualifications, suffered with domestic violence, raised negatively by their carers - abused or parents often fought

Concluded that crime is attractive to women who lack controls in their live such as drug abuse, violence + shoplifting

Question 5

Evaluation

Answer 5

Ignores that women have a choice when it comes to committing crime
Gives female criminals a victim status