SILVESTRI & CROWTHER-DOWEY 2008 Flashcards
Majority of time, female offender is invisible and neglected. When portrayed =
evil
unstable
irrational
Rise of the…
‘girl gang’
Emergence of ‘mean girl’ and ‘ladette’ who are able and willing to participate in a culture of
violence and drinking (ALDER & WORRALL, 2004)
Women’s pattern of offending = different from
mens
while women do commit a broad range of offences, they commit less crime than men and are less dangerous and violent than their…
male counterparts
Women = less likely to be recidivists or professional criminals, as well as less likely to be involved in…
violent or sexual crimes
‘The Criminality of Women’ Pollak 1950, argued that women’s crime was vastly underestimated and that women were more…
prominent than men in the dark figure of crime
According to Pollak, women = deceitful and cunning and able to conceal their crimes, through abortion, theft, prostitution - women exploit their status as..
helpless victims aided by men’s chivalry
ADLER 1975 - Sisters in crime, 1960s-70s, identified a ‘new breed of female criminal’ - changing offending pattern to a more ‘masculine’ style - more aggressive, violent and unfeminine.
1970s - backdrop of emergent equal opportunities legislation, link quickly made between women’s…
liberation and their participation in crime
ADLER 1975 - argument that not only does female liberation cause crime, but that female criminality can be treated as an indication of the…
degree of liberation achieved by women
‘Search for equivalence’ in offending behaviour has been further compounded by the ‘search for equivalence’ in victimisation, such as the rise of the…
male victim
Treating women as offenders as though they were men, particularly when outcome = punitive, in the name of EQUAL JUSTICE amounts to nothing more than…
‘VENGEFUL EQUITY’ (CHESNEY-LIND 2006)
TEINMAN 1980 - Chivalry is for…
white, middle class women
VISHER 1983, SIMPSON 1989, CHIGWADA 1999 - white women enjoy a considerable advantage over..
black women
black and white men
Women in prison and vulnerability: CJS failed to recognise…
degree of deprivation (poor physical and mental health)
