Evaluation

• Successful application in method of modification

  The man up project

  • men could Be exposed to more feminine strategies of conflict management.
  • this project supports men in exploring the way in which the concept of masculinity contributes to shaping individual identity
  • it axioms to challenge some attitudes and negative outcomes experienced by men as a result of wanting to fulfil stereotypes or expectations.
  • though there is no credible research to back this up.
• Hormones in men and women

  Despite lower levels of “aggression-causing“ testosterone, women are less likely to commit crimes because of higher levels of female hormones, lie oestradiol, which is in both men and women but much higher in females, which is thougly to promote empathy, a characteristic lacking in criminals.
• Eriksson

  compared hormone levels of males who had a history of alcohol-related aggression which a control group of 44 men of no such history.
• Eriksson found

  a negative correlation between oestradiol levels and testosterone related aggression. suggests that both male and female hormone levels have as role at least in some criminal behaviour.
• james Dabbs 


  Found that 9 out of 11 inmates with low testosterone levels had committed non violent crimes, compared to 10 out of 11 inmates who had high testosterone levels committed violent crimes
• James dabbs Reasearch suggests that testosterone is related to increased aggression and that differences in socialisation many not be the only influencing factor in criminal behaviour
• this exp-list ion is reductionist, simplifying the complexity of criminal behaviour down to a simple explanation of gender socialisation.