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Gender crime and justice - Coggle Diagram
Gender crime and justice
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The Chivarly thesis
Thesis argues that most criminal justice system agents such as police officers and judges are socialised to be chivalrous towards women
Argues that the criminal justice system is a lot more lenient towards women and so their crimes are less likely to end up in the statistics
Definition: the system of values that knights in the Middle Ages were expected to follow an honourable and polite way of behaving especially towards women
Evidence
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Official statistics: women more likely to be released on bail, more likely to get a fine or community service than a jail sentence
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Criticisms
Farrington and Morris study of sentencing, differences between males and females was not lenient towards females
Buckle and Farrington witnessed twice as many male shoplifters than females despite equal statistics
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Control theory
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Evaluation
Domestic violence is an issue for more women than men and fears around harassment are not to be dismissed but women are more liberated
Also sees women behaviour as determined by external factors and underplays the importance of free will
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