HEIDENSOHN & SILVESTRI 2012 GENDER & CRIME Flashcards
Differences between male and female rates of crime are variously termed…
‘the gender gap’ or the ‘sex crime ratio’
Adler raised the issue that female crime rates had been rising more rapidly in the 1960s/70s - that female offenders were changing their patterns of offending to more ‘masculine’ styles and that this was due to the growth of the…
modern women’s movement
‘Liberation causes crime’
Adler 1975
Problematic nature of studying women’s participation in crime due to small number. The low number of women engaged in criminal behaviour has very significant impacts on those…
seeking to study them
Wiener’s (1998) view of the ‘vanishing female’ in Victorian crime figures is that this was partly due to the increasing prominence and visibility of the…
male criminal
Entry of women into policing in the USA, UK, Australia, etc. was a product of…
first wave feminism (Heidensohn 2000)
Women in policing was a cause promoted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries precisely to provide protection to female and juvenile offenders and victims, which, it was felt, they did not receive from an…
all-male force (Carrier 1988: Feinman 1986)
Men and boys are responsible for the majority of offending behaviour remains an uncontested…
feature within criminology and debates on gender and crime
Connell 1995 looked at the key concepts of patriarchy, domination, oppression and exploitation through which men are deemed…
the powerful
women = the ‘other’
Messerschmidt (1993) applied Connell’s framework to the study of crime, and developed the idea of gender as a ‘situational accomplishment’ and of crime as a means of …
‘doing gender’
Messerschmidt (1993) draws attention to those groups marginalised and excluded from labour markets, but rather than arguing that these factors push men into crime, he describes how men who cannot access economic and material resources, commit crime as a method of…
‘doing masculinity’ and the assertion of manliness
