feminism and gender explanations

• Heidensohn


  Gender blind due to male dominance, offenders, vicarious identification, such as male interest, studied and sociological theorising males, such as ignoring women views
• liberal feminists- gender, role, socialisation

  Oakley, Adler, Messerschmidt, Heidensohn, Lees, Jackson, Denscombe
• radical feminists- patriarchy


  Smart, Edward, farrington, procek
• marxist feminism- capitalism


  Carlen
• stats are true


  Women commit less crime than men, because the CJS are lenient towards them, such as the chivalry thesis

  Three reasons are: biological difference, gender role socialisation, different social control
• biological reason


  Lombrosso- women are passive and don’t have enough intellect or knowledge to break the law, but females, born criminal or due to women lacking maternal instinct so can’t have kids and are aggressive
• Gender role, socialisation


  Heidensohn- women have more to lose

  Oakley- different socialisation, such as canalisation, which is different toys

  Messerschmidt- boys socialised into hegemonic values, such as being a real man and having power or domestic violence

  Connell- traditional masculinity, such as strength leads to assault

  Marginalisation such as the crisis of masculinity leads to fraud
• social control


  Heidensohn- for women have less opportunity for crime

  Home – private sphere, women dominate the homes, more nurturing, such as mothers and housewives

  Public – men dominate outside as classrooms, and outside, and women fear going out alone at dark

  Work – dual burden women is a housewife and a worker and fears sexual assault at work

  Social policy – women place via benefits such as primary carer
• female crime increase


  Adler – Liberation thesis – general have become equal, so women have more opportunity to commit crime

  Jackson, – ladettes, young females display Ladish behaviour such as fighting and drinking and all assertive

  Denscombe- increase female risk taking behaviour and male attitude so more arrested
• female criminality


  Carlen- 39 working class, women given deals

  Two deals were: class, so they work to get a good standard of living

  Gender so traditional family rules lead to emotional family rewards

  Deals provided nothing and just led to increase crime for them to escape poverty and control decreased and faith in the welfare system decreased
• statistics are fake- women commit more

  Pollek-biological reason that women are more devious than men, and or better liars due to emotional disturbance, such as hormones are being on period so they hide periods from men and fake and orgasm