Women don't commit crime

• Pollak (1950): Women are treated more leniently by the law because men are socialised to protect women. This is called the Chivalry Thesis.
• Evidence of Chivalry thesis: Ministry of justice say 49% of women offending received a caution in (2007) compared to 30% of males.
• Heidensohn: Found that women have less opportunities to commit crime because they are controlled by men in the public and private sphere.
• Heidensohn: Found that women are treated harsher by the law because they break the law and their gender stereotype.
• Walklate: In S.A cases it is up to the victim to prove their respectability and not the offender.
• Lombroso: Women commit less crime because of their biology.
• Parson's Sex Role theory: Men engage in crime to distance themselve from femininity.
• Parsons makes assumptions based on gender stereotypes which are becoming increasingly less important with the introduction of feminism.
• Carlen: (Gender Deal): I women conform to their gender roles they would receive emotional support. (Class Deal): If women engage in paid work they gain material things. When women cant get this legitimately they turn to crime.
• Evaluation to Carlen: Suggests that women are influenced bu external factors only and not free will.