Lecture 8- Gender Flashcards
What are the readings?
Burman & Gelsthorpe, Newton and the Corston Report
What are the key points from Burman & Gelsthorpe?
Feminist criminology is from the second wave of feminism
Focuses on different experiences between men and women
Women don’t receive requirements concerns medical treatment
Pollack’s research= Women are expected to perform empowerment for parole and rape is a weapon in war
Acceptance of rape myths
History of violent and sexual victimisation
Background of poverty
Employment difficulty
What are the key points from the Corston Report?
Women have more vulnerabilities
More likely to be the primary caregiver
Increases in self harm and self inflicted deaths
Imprisoned further away from their homes
Poor diets (rich in carbs)
Anxiety from being away from their child
Prevalence of drug and alcohol misuse
History of sexual and violent abuse
What are the key points from Newton?
Sykes= groups are formed in prison to cope
High deprivation in prison
Prisoners that pass the test of masculinity gain advantages
Loss of heterosexual contact ‘castrated by involuntary celibacy
Prisoner becomes weak, helpless and dependent on status of childhood
What are the 2 principles from feminist perspectives?
Women are generally invisible and they are portrayed in ways that distort their experienes (Shiner, 2009)
What do we need to acknowledge women as?
Offenders, employees and victims
What are women historically portrayed as?
Marginalised in criminology
What does criminology neglect?
Empirical study of female offending and neglect of female victimisation and male violence on women
What does Cohen say about male offending?
The delinquent is the rogue male
Who looked at the key points of the feminist theory?
Daly and Chesney-Lind, 1988
What does Daly and Chesney-Lind say?
Gender is a social, historical and cultural product
Gender relations order social life
Constructs of masculinity and femininity are based on male superiority and dominance over women
Systems of knowledge reflect male views of the world
Women should be at the centre of intellectual inquiry
What are the critical issues in women offending?
Media representations are disproportionate to the amount of crime women commit (Heidensohn, 2006)
Doubly deviant (Howe, 1994)
Moral panics about women offenders
What are the crime rates corresponding to women?
Women commit less crime and when they offend the crime is less serious
What are the female crime rates 2012-13?
15% of all arrests and 25% of all convictions
What are the more prevalent crimes for women?
TV license fee evasions, shoplifting and benefit fraud
