Crime and Gender
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- Crime and Gender
- Controversial issue
- Men commit more crime than women
- Serious and violent offence
- Sexual offences
- Stranger assaults on children
- Female criminality
- Linked to a number of factors
- Homosexuality
- Alcohol abuse
- Psychiatric disturbances
- Neurological abnormalities
- Impulse control
- Gender roles
- Expectations of women
- Link between crime, power and dominance
- Socioeconomic status
- Theories
- La Donna Delinquent - Lombrosso (1893)
- Positivist perspective
- Lack of moral and sexual restraints
- Psychopathia Sexualis - Kraft-Ebing (1886)
- Studied the mental state of sex criminals
- Four states (related to sexual desire)
- Paradoxia - wrong time
- Anaesthesia - insufficient
- Hyperesthesia - excessive
- Paraesthesia - misdirected
- Sexual Inversion - Ellis (1897)
- Looked at sexual relations of homosexual males
- Objective study
- Developed a number of psychological concepts
- Autoerotism
- Sexual stimulation through internal stimuli
- Narcissism
- Personality disorder
- Excessive love for and preoccupation with oneself
- Autoerotism
- Five Hundred Delinquent Women -Glueck and Glueck (1934)
- Tracked careers of women released from a reformatory
- Case studies
- Lengthy follow up periods
- Court records, school records, personal interviews, physical exams, and parole records
- Social & hereditary (biological) factors of female offending
- Mental instabilities and marginal economic circumstances contributed to crime
- Tracked careers of women released from a reformatory
- The Criminality of Women - Pollak (1950)
- Female crime is more easily hidden
- Better opportunities
- CJS is biased against women
- Convict and sentence too leniently
- Women commit just as much crime as men
- Women inherently decietful
- Female crime is more easily hidden
- La Donna Delinquent - Lombrosso (1893)
- Linked to a number of factors
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