Crime and Deviance, Topic 5: Gender, Crime and Justice

Gender patterns in crime

The chivalry thesis

Evidence against the chivalry thesis

Bias against women, rather than in favour of them, in the criminal justice system.

Explaining female crime: Functionalist sex role theory

Heidensohn: patriarchal control

Carlen: class and gender deals

Adler: Liberation thesis.

Criticisms of the liberation thesis

Women and violent crime

A moral panic about girls

Gender and victimisation

Why men commit crime: Masculinity and crime, Messerschmidt

Criticisms of Messerschmidt

Winlow: postmodernity masculinity and crime