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Crime and Deviance
Gender, Crime and Justice
The Chivalry Thesis
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The
Chivalry Thesis
states that women are treated less harshly than men in the
criminal justice system
Graham and Bowling
study of
1,721
14-25
had men
4 times
more likely to commit crimes than females
Flood-Page et al
found while only
1 in 11
self-reported female offenders were cautioned or prosecuted while the figure for men exceeded
1 in 7
Hood
found women were one third less likely to be jailed than men
Gelsthorpe and Louck
interviewed
197
magistrates, and they were more inclined to take in
family
circumstances in cases involving female offenders
However
Farrington and Morris's
study of
408
offences of theft found no significant gender difference in the treatment of men and women
Buckle and
Farrington
observational study found
twice
as many men are shoplifting compared to women
Hades
et al
found men were more likely to self-report
binge-drinking
, taking
illegal drugs
and disorderly conduct