Names

Subdecks (4)

Cards (40)

  • Waddington
    • stop and search rates proportional to available population= those on the streets may not reflect society as a whole-> more likely to be youth and ethnic-minorities
    • at night, in vehicle, police unlikely to be aware of the ethnicity of the driver, SE: Waddington only conducted interviews on the police not those SS
  • Willis
    • laddism and anti-school subcultures->> school did not work well as an agency of socialisation
    • ->> didn't become a passive and docile workforce (rejecting B&G) but going into w/c jobs nonetheless= intentional failure that still benefits capitalism
    • research methods: methodological pluralism (may have been the Hawthorne and interviewer effect)
  • Pollack
    women commit as many crimes as men but are better liars and learnt deception (eg. faking orgasm and lying about periods)= get away w/ it
  • Heidensohn
    Control Theory
    girls controlled by their fathers and their male relatives->> when they are married they become controlled by their husbands and sons
    ->> boys/ young men don't experience this sae level of control and authority= more like to turn to C/D
  • Jones
    women in prison= 'co-defendants' with a controlling man->> pressured into criminality through the patriarchy
    ->> contrasts w/ Heidensohn
  • Smart
    • critical of mainstream criminology->> feminist should take a transgressive (considering crime beyond the rigid concept of illegality)->> what harms women as a whole
    • existing theories around crime from a male pov/ what interests them
  • Messerschmidt
    • males commit the most crimes= studies of crime must include a study of masculine values
    • criticise sex-role theory, biological explanations->> argues cross cultural studies show boys from diff. cultures are socialised diff.
    • -> men and women active in the construction of their identities
    • studies of crime must take into account diff. masculinity/how that affects types of masculinity