Male And Female Involvement In Deviant Subcultures Flashcards
Findings from the Crown Court Sentenced survey- 2013
Boys are more likely to commit violent offences, girls more likely to shoplift
Boys are more likely to go to prison
amount of girls found guilty of an offence/cautioned had increase
Male involvement
- the theorists
Messerschmidt - gang acts as a location for ‘doing masculinity’ - which had to be accomplished and proved
Faludi- young males committing criminal behaviour isn’t deviant- but an expression of the qualities we admire in males (strength, toughness, bravery)
Bourdieu - suggests that older males perform symbolic violence
• intimidation of others
•domination of others
Female involvement (despite being invisible in previous studies) - the theorists
Heidensohn- girls commuting less crime than boys as research is male stream - girls crime is not as heavily recorded
- girls who commit crimes are doubly deviant
- difference between is girls and boys are treated
- for daring to enter a male dominated sphere
- women often giver harsher sentences (shouldn’t be committing this crime)
Girls aren’t deviant
Lees - less likely to be involved in deviance - support with McRobbie and Garber/Lincoln
- girls are more likely to face control by their peer groups in relation to their reputation - prevents them from acting in a delinquent way and committing crime
Girls are just as deviant as boys
Klein- suggests that female gang members commit equally violent acts as their male counterparts
Pearce and Pitts - (just as likely) - although female gangs are less evident in the Uk than the US, an estimated 12,509 young women have close involvement with gangs
Harding
- girls use their social skills when involved with gangs - to find a role for themselves
- girls would never be leaders- would be ‘fixers’(hide weapons and drugs as less likely to be stopped by police.
- use social skills(lookouts, drug transport, info) to gain street capital
- boys ‘keep girls in line’ - prevent them from becoming leaders
