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  • June 30, 2021
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Topic 5 – Gender, Crime and Justice:
Gender Patterns in Crime:
 By the age of 40, 1/3 of men have some sort of conviction compared to 1/10 women
 In 2014, men accounted for ¾ of all convictions, 85% of all ‘serious’ crimes and 95%
of prisoners
 Men are convicted for about 6 known criminal offences compared to every one
committed by a woman

The Chivalry Thesis:
 Chivalry – a honourable way of behaving especially towards women
 Argues that women are committing crime but are just getting away with it because
men are taught to be chivalrous
 Most criminal justice agents are socialised to act ‘chivalrous’ towards women
 Polak – ‘men hate to accuse women and thus send them to their punishment’,
 Essentially the CJS is more lenient towards women so they are less likely to be
prosecuted as so end up on official statistics
o More likely to be released on bail, receive a fine rather than prison sentence
and less likely to receive a prison sentence overall
 Criticism – some argue that in some cases, women are treated more harshly then
men


Explaining Female Crime:
Functionalist Sex Role Theory:
 Suggests that women are socialised into and brought up to be passive so are less
likely to commit crime
 Parsons traces gender differences in crime and deviance to his gender roles –
instrumental (men) and expressive (women)
 Gender socialises women to adopt feminine characteristics which leads them to
avoid the risk-taking associating with committing crime and, because they are often
looking after children and doing housework, have less time and opportunity to
commit crime
 Criticism – It’s view on women’s role within the household is very outdated. Many
women no longer have an expressive role in the household

Heidensohn: patriarchal control:
 Heidensohn argues that women commit less crime because patriarchal society
imposes more control over women which reduces their opportunity to commit
crime
o Control at home – constant childcare and housework and they may also have
less opportunity for leisure if their husband controls the family money

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