SOC - Feminism & Crime Flashcards

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Heidenson

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  • Social control prevents women from offending.

- The few women who do offend are judged as doubly deviant

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Heidensohn Social Control

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Women are socially controlled and this restricts them from committing crime. EG:
House wife role = too busy caring for children
Men usually bosses, no option for women to commit white collar crime
Women avoid pubic through fear of negative labelling.

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Heidensohn Doubly Deviant

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when women do commit crime (which is less often than men due to social control… they are actually treated more harshly by the criminal justice system EG female criminal may be seen as a bad mother/wife as well as a criminal

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Pollack / Heidenson Evaluation

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Heidensohn’s social control theory directly opposes the idea of ‘chivalry thesis’ put forward by sociologist, Pollak.

  • the appearance of low levels of female crime was due to them being treated more leniently by the CJS. There is some evidence that this is actually the case, so Heidensohn’s double deviance theory may not be that relevant.
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Walby

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  • Crimes against women are caused by a combination of gender inequalities across all agents of society. There is a matrix of inequality that causes women to become victims.
  • argues that sociologists need to address the issue that women are increasingly becoming victims of violence and sexual assault.
  • Decline of sexual assault convictions helps support this
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Walby examples

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  • Education, focuses on telling girls to protect themselves rather than teaching males not to harass women
  • Women on a low income struggle to leave abusive partners for financial reasons.
  • Marital rape
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Walby evaluation

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Critics might point to the significant advances in gender equality that have occurred in recent decades.

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Female committing crime

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Archer
Adler
Vicky Price (Economist)

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Females victim to crime

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Heidenson

Walby

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Archer

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Riot Girls (girls in gangs). Archer used the media, police, and previous studies to conduct secondary study on girl gangs. Archer discovered that gang culture can be liberating for many young girls who feel marginalised in society. Girls in gangs may be considered to be “resisting established gender roles.”

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Archer Eval

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Secondary research and its validity can be questioned

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Adler

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  • Women’s liberation has resulted in an increase in offenders as women adopted more male qualities in order to fulfil male societal responsibilities - just consider the emergence of the ‘ladette.’
  • Heidensohn accepts the rise in female crime ,but says it is a result of female marginalisation
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Ladette

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Phenomenon of the late 90s and 00s , where young women behaved in a boisterously assertive or crude manner and engages in heavy drinking sessions.

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