Key studies Flashcards
What is Pollarks biological study
Women compelled to commit certain crimes du to hormones etc.
Women manipulate men to commit crime and chivalry thesis *(no evidence)
What is Speed and Burrows in relation to Chivalry Thesis
Male offenders 2x likely to receive a custodial sentence as female offenders - shoplifting
What does Klein suggest about the concept of chivarly
Racist and Classist - notion of women as ‘ladies’ which are only applicable to middle class white women (least likely to come into contact of CJS)
What does Carlen argue about motherhood
Role of mother is taken into account much more than a male’s role as father
What does Heidensohn suggest about women in court
Female offenders who conform to expectation of feminine behaviour, by crying or showing maternal love, may be treated more leniently than males
What did Females have that influenced the CJS
More likely to have mitigating factors e.g motherly responisbilites
What did Females have that influenced the CJS
More likely to have mitigating factors e.g motherly responsibilities
What did Females have that influenced the CJS
More likely to have mitigating factors e.g motherly responsibilities
What did Morris find about factors
Females more likely to be first time offenders, committed less serious form of offence (eg no violence or stole less)
What did Chensey Lind Find
Female crime seen to be sexualised
What did Thomas argue about men and women
possessing different personality traits (Biological argument) - different brains and thus have a different tendency to commit crimes
What does Sutherland say (functionalist)
clear gender differences in socialisation e.g girls more controlled
What does Parsons find in NF
Gender roles within the nuclear family. Instrumental and expressive
What does the feminist Smart find
Controls over girls within the family
What did the feminist view of Carlen say
Women who deviant more likely to be poorer e.g care backround
What did Jackson find
Lads and Laddettes (girls behaving deviant like boys)
Adler on liberation theology
Female crime on rise due to liberations as females achieve equality this leads them into more masculine behaviour.
Critique of Adler and liberation thesis
Stat evidence has been challenged, crime decreased and serious offences for women decreased
What does Messerschmidt argue about Hegemonic masculinity
how it emphasises competitive and aggression due to lack of male identity
What is hyper masculinity
Made by Mosher shows how poor jobless men display masculinity through toughness and violence
What is the crisis of masculinity
where decline in working industrial jobs leads working class men towards more violent behaviour to accomplish masculinity as traditional breadwinner role has been taken.
What is the crisis of masculinity
where decline in working industrial jobs leads working class men towards more violent behaviour to accomplish masculinity as traditional breadwinner role has been taken.
What does Winlow point out about crisis of masculinity
Where unemployment in Sunderland has left young men without role and thus violence became more significant and drug dealing. People became bouncers as a form of expression
Contemporary example of Women in crime
Emily Boyne (holding up shop with gun)
