TOPIC 5 Patriarchal Control
- Heidensohn argues that the most striking Class / Gender deals - Carlen
thing about women s behaviour is how - The class deal = women who work will be offered
Do women commit more conformist it is, they commit fewer crimes material rewards with a decent standard of living and
than men due to the patriarchal society and leisure opportunities
- typically female crimes such as shoplifting are
control it has over women - Women feel they have a lack of a legitimate way to
less likely to be reported, less likely to get
earn a living and so feel oppressed and victims
media attention than violent crimes committed
- Control at Home = Women s domestic role at - The gender deals = patriarchal ideology promises
by men
home con nes them to the house for long women material and emotional rewards from family life
- Even when women commit crimes they are less
periods of time by conforming to the domestic
likely to be prosecuted
- For conforming to the patriarchal family norms, most of
- Control in Public = women are controlled in the women had either not had the opportunity to make
public by the fear of male violence especially a deal or saw few rewards within the family life
Chivalry thesis - bias help
sexual violence
- Most criminal justice agents, such as police are - Crime was the only way to achieve a decent living
men and men are socialised to act chivalrous - Control at work = Women s behaviour is
towards women controlled by male superiors and managers.
- CJS is more lenient towards women so crimes Glass ceilings prevent women from reaching
are less likely to come up in stats higher status to commit fraud
- So exaggerates gender diff in stats Sex role theory
- Parsons traces differences in crime and deviance to the
gender roles in conventional nuclear family. Men are
Bias against women the breadwinners and women are to socialise children.
- Many say CJS is bias against women The liberation thesis - Boys reject the feminine models that express emotion
- Heidensohn argues the court treats females - Adler argues that as women become instead boys engage with masculinity via aggression
more harshly than males when they deviate liberated from patriarchy, their crimes will be and anti-social behaviour which can slip into
from gender norms as frequent and serious as men delinquency.
- Courts punish girls more than boys for - Changing structure of society has lead to - Because men have a diff role in socialisation within
premature sexual activity women s offending behaviour nuclear family it means their socialisation is diff. Cohen
- Women now commit typically male offences says that this lack of male role model leads them to
- Carlin argues that when women are jailed to such as white collar crime, due to women s gangs
is less of the seriousness of their crimes but con dence and assertiveness - New right theorists agrees with Cohen
more of the courts assessment of them as wives - This theory tries to explain that gender diff in crime is
and mothers due to behaviour learnt through socialisation. It is
- This is seen as a double standard due to the ultimately based on biological assumptions of sex diff.
CJS being patriarchal
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- Heidensohn argues that the most striking Class / Gender deals - Carlen
thing about women s behaviour is how - The class deal = women who work will be offered
Do women commit more conformist it is, they commit fewer crimes material rewards with a decent standard of living and
than men due to the patriarchal society and leisure opportunities
- typically female crimes such as shoplifting are
control it has over women - Women feel they have a lack of a legitimate way to
less likely to be reported, less likely to get
earn a living and so feel oppressed and victims
media attention than violent crimes committed
- Control at Home = Women s domestic role at - The gender deals = patriarchal ideology promises
by men
home con nes them to the house for long women material and emotional rewards from family life
- Even when women commit crimes they are less
periods of time by conforming to the domestic
likely to be prosecuted
- For conforming to the patriarchal family norms, most of
- Control in Public = women are controlled in the women had either not had the opportunity to make
public by the fear of male violence especially a deal or saw few rewards within the family life
Chivalry thesis - bias help
sexual violence
- Most criminal justice agents, such as police are - Crime was the only way to achieve a decent living
men and men are socialised to act chivalrous - Control at work = Women s behaviour is
towards women controlled by male superiors and managers.
- CJS is more lenient towards women so crimes Glass ceilings prevent women from reaching
are less likely to come up in stats higher status to commit fraud
- So exaggerates gender diff in stats Sex role theory
- Parsons traces differences in crime and deviance to the
gender roles in conventional nuclear family. Men are
Bias against women the breadwinners and women are to socialise children.
- Many say CJS is bias against women The liberation thesis - Boys reject the feminine models that express emotion
- Heidensohn argues the court treats females - Adler argues that as women become instead boys engage with masculinity via aggression
more harshly than males when they deviate liberated from patriarchy, their crimes will be and anti-social behaviour which can slip into
from gender norms as frequent and serious as men delinquency.
- Courts punish girls more than boys for - Changing structure of society has lead to - Because men have a diff role in socialisation within
premature sexual activity women s offending behaviour nuclear family it means their socialisation is diff. Cohen
- Women now commit typically male offences says that this lack of male role model leads them to
- Carlin argues that when women are jailed to such as white collar crime, due to women s gangs
is less of the seriousness of their crimes but con dence and assertiveness - New right theorists agrees with Cohen
more of the courts assessment of them as wives - This theory tries to explain that gender diff in crime is
and mothers due to behaviour learnt through socialisation. It is
- This is seen as a double standard due to the ultimately based on biological assumptions of sex diff.
CJS being patriarchal
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