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Gender and Crime - Coggle Diagram
Gender and Crime
Sex Role Theory
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Women's traditional 'expressive' roles involve caring for partners, children and dependent elderly relatives, and these are combined with responsibilities for housework and family management
Gender socialisation encourages women to adopt feminine characteristics such as being more emotional, less competitive, less tough and aggressive, and more averse to taking risks than men.
women avoid the risk-taking involved in crime, as well as giving them fewer opportunities than men to commit crime.
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Stats
Official statistics show that males commit far more crime than females, in what is sometimes called the 'crime-gender gap' or the 'crime-sex ratio".
men accounted for three-quarters of all persons convicted and 85 per cent of those convicted for more serious (indictable) criminal offences, and 95 per cent of prisoners.
less detectable offences
Theft from shops is the most common offence among women, and around one-third of women in prison are there for theft and handling stolen goods.
women tend to steal smaller, less detectable items such as clothing, groceries, health products and perfumes, while males go for larger, more detectable and items like electrical equipment
Heidensohn
Heidensohn suggests that women, in a patriarchal society, have more to lose than men if they get involved in crime and deviance, because they face a greater risk of stigma or shame.
Women who take the risk of involving themselves in crime therefore face the double jeopardy of being condemned for both committing a crime and behaving in an unfeminine way - unlike a 'proper woman'.
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