evaluate gender socialisation

• chivalry hypothesis

  • women commit more than official stats
  • most police are men so treat women with leniency
  • Pollak 1950 - men in CJS tend to have protection attitudes to women, less likely to be arrested
• men less likely punished

  • men commit more violent offences and get off lighter as only over stepping exception for gender
  • females who commit crime breaking gender expected roles
• hormones in males

  • testosterone - higher levels in men
  • Dabbs et al 1987, 9/11 inmates lowest level has committed non violent crime but highest testosterone 10/11 committed violent crime
  • not just socialistion explain crime
• hormones in females

  • women have high oestradiol which promotes empathy
  • Eriksson et al 2003 - alcohol related aggression history showed negative correlation between oestradiol and testosterone related aggression