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gender and
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gender and
crime
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Gender Bias in CJS
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Chivalry Thesis
=officials in CJS
who are mainly men
are less likely to
punish women to be
soft and protective
over women
Hood
=studied over 3000
court cases and found where
men and women guilty of similar
crimes and found women are a
1/3 less likely to be sent to
prison
Evaluation
=Heidensohn
=male bias based
on a stereotypical
view of women
Steward
=imprisonment
is based on
seriousness of crime
Bias Against
Women
Walklate
=in rape trials
womens complaints
are not taken
seriously
=fewer prosecutions
=female victim is
on trial not male
offender
Westmarland
=rise in globalisation
=female trafficking
=treated with hostility
=deported back to
country and offender
left alone
Heidensohn
=when women
offend and deviate
from norms of
femininity, treated as
double deviants
=double standards
in promiscuity
Female Conformity
vs Male
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Socialisation
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Leonard
=culture of
femininity stresses
community, empathy and
compassion
=deter criminal action
Differential
Controls
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Heidensohn
=greater social control
=at home, public and
at work