The Chivalry Thesis

    Cards (8)

    • 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