Women and crime studies Flashcards
How did Heidensohn (1989) criticise what she deemed as ‘malestream criminology’?
Male dominance of offenders - means women offenders are rarely studied
Male domination of sociology - investigation reflects male interests
Vicarious identification - similar to previous point
Sociological theorizing - most crime theories are perceived to be ‘gender blind’
Who argued that biological factors may influence a minority of women to commit crime in certain circumstances?
Dalton (1964)
Who identified that certain methods of informal social control and sanctions exist to deter women from crime and deviance?
Heidensohn (1996)
What did Hagan (1987) discover regarding child raising patterns?
that far more discipline was exerted on daughter’s activities compared to sons
Who coined the term ‘bedroom culture’ relating to girls staying indoors as a result of parental control?
Mcrobbie (1994)
What were the three areas of control that Heidensohn (1985) identified as being reasons why women have little opportunity to commit crime?
Control of women within the home, in public and in the workplace
What did Lees (1986) say about labelling?
that labelling can have major consequences on the way a girl behaves
What did Carlen (1988) argue regarding female repeat offenders?
that mechanisms of social control had broken down for these women, meaning they had either failed to gain material reward from the workplace or failed to find satisfaction in the domestic role
Who argued that women were becoming more susceptible to crime due to a lessening on their social control restrictions (liberationist perspective)?
Adler (1975)
What did Denscombe (2001) argue regarding changing female roles?
that they are becoming increasingly masculine, found that many teenage girls had adopted traditionally male attitudes.
Who argued that the criminal justice system identifies certain ‘types’ of women may receive harsher or more lenient sentences than men?
Farrington and Morris (1983)
How did postmodernist Carlen (1992) criticise feminist crime theories?
said that they were theoretically weak and represented a ‘bolt on’ to existing theories
