Gender and crime

And political all entries for this opedia of crime and ght 2002 the gale group and crime gender is the single best predictor of criminal behavior: men commit more crime, and women commit less. This distinction holds throughout history, for all societies, for all groups, and for nearly every crime category. Most efforts to understand crime have focused on male crime, since men have greater involvement in criminal behavior. For example, learning why women commit less crime than men can help illuminate the underlying causes of crime and how it might better be controlled. This discussion of gender and crime first reviews both current and historical information on the rates and patterns of female crime in relation to male crime. The discussion is followed by a consideration of theoretical explanations of female crime and gender differences in crime. Finally, the authors briefly outline a "gendered" approach to understanding female crime that takes into account the influence of gender differences in norms, in socialization, in social control, and in criminal opportunities, as well as psychological and physiological differences between men and women. Federal bureau of investigation's uniform crime reports (ucr), collected from the nation's law enforcement agencies and tabulated by the federal bureau of investigation (f. Bureau of justice statistics' national crime vicitimization survey (ncvs); surveys of self-reported offending behavior, such as the national youth survey (elliot and ageton); and case studies based on autobiographical accounts or interviews with and observation of individual offenders and gangs. Any comparison of male and female criminality must acknowledge important similarities as well as rities in male and female offending rates and patterns both males and females have low rates of arrest for serious crimes like homicide or robbery; and high rates of arrest for petty property crimes like larceny-theft, or public order offenses such as alcohol and drug offenses or disorderly conduct. In general, women tend to have relatively high arrest rates in most of the same crime categories for which men have high arrest rates. That is, decades or groups or regions that have high (or low) rates of male crime tend to also have high (or low) rates of female crime. Male and female offenders have similar age-crime distributions, although male levels of offending are always higher than female levels at every age and for virtually all offenses. The major exception to this age-by-gender pattern is for prostitution, where the age-curve for females displays a much greater concentration of arrests among the young, compared to an older age-curve for males. The younger and more peaked female age curve clearly reflects differing opportunity structures for crimes relating to prostitution. However, women who commit crime are somewhat more likely than men to have been abused physically, psychologically, or sexually, both in childhood and as ences between male and female offending patterns females have lower arrest rates than males for virtually all crime categories except prostitution. In the united states, women constitute less than 20 percent of arrests for most crime s have even lower representation than males do in serious crime categories. Since the 1960s in the united states, the extent of female arrests has generally been less than 15 percent for homicide and aggravated assault, and less than 10 percent for the serious property crimes of burglary and robbery. Aside from prostitution, female representation has been greatest for minor property crimes such as larceny-theft, fraud, forgery, and embezzlement. Female arrests for these crime categories has been as high as 30 to 40 percent, especially since the mid-1970s. Some writers claim that female crime has been increasing faster than male crime, as measured by the percentage of female arrests. This has clearly been true in the case of minor property crimes, where the percentage of female arrests had about doubled between 1960 and 1975 (from around 15 to 30 percent or more), with slight additional increases since then. The national crime victimization survey asks victims about the gender of offenders in crimes where the offender is seen. Some pursue relatively brief careers (in relation to male criminal careers) in prostitution, drug offenses, or minor property crimes like shoplifting or check forging. And males are overwhelmingly dominant in the more organized and highly lucrative crimes, whether based in the underworld or the "upperworld. Female , biological, economic, and psychological explanations have been used to develop theories to explain why women commit crime, as well as why they commit less crime than men. The number and complexity of these theories has expanded greatly in recent years as part of the growing body of work on gender both in criminology and in the social sciences more generally. Early explanations of female crime reflected prevailing views regarding crime and human behavior more generally. In criminology this perspective was apparent in theories attributing crime to either biological or social factors beyond the control of individuals. At the same time, major sociological explanations of crime (differential association, anomie, social disorganization) were emphasizing social and cultural factors that could account for female as well as male criminality. During the first half of the twentieth century, most explanations of female crime were ancillary to explanations of male criminality.

Early sociological explanations generally rejected biological determinism and offered sociocultural interpretations of both male and female crime as well as of gender differences in crime. Theorists emphasizing the causal role of biological and psychological factors in female crime typically postulated that criminal women exhibited masculine biological or psychological orientations. Similarly, freud argued that female crime results from a "masculinity complex," stemming from penis envy. Eleanor and sheldon glueck's studies of adult and juvenile delinquents suggested that female crime reflected the inability of certain women—especially those from disadvantaged neighborhood and family contexts—to control their sexual impulses. Otto pollak's the criminality of women is the most important work on female crime prior to the modern period. The book summarized previous work on women and crime, and it challenged basic assumptions concerning the extent and quality of women's involvement in criminal behavior. Pollak himself explained female crime and the gender gap with reference to a mix of biological, psychological, and sociological factors. Pollak is the first writer to insist that women's participation in crime approaches that of men and is commensurate with their representation in the population. He argues that the types of crimes women commit—shoplifting, domestic thefts, thefts by prostitutes, abortions, perjury—are underrepresented in crime statistics for a variety of reasons: easy concealment, underreporting, embarrassment on the part of male victims, and male chivalry in the justice system. In sum, in comparison to explanations for male offending, some early explanations of female crime placed greater emphasis on biological and psychological factors. Criminology textbooks, in particular, offered an interpretation of female offending and the gender gap that took into account gender differences in role expectations, socialization patterns and application of social control, opportunities to commit particular offenses, and access to criminally oriented subcultures—all themes that have been further developed in more recent accounts (see reviews in steffensmeier and clark 1980; chesney-lind 1986). This was a revival of a view long current in criminology, that gender differences in crime could be explained by differences in male and female social positions. This plausible notion gave rise to the "gender equality hypothesis": as social differences between men and women disappear under the influence of the women's movement, so should the differences in crime disappear. However, other criminologists have pointed to the peculiarity of the view that improving girls' and women's economic conditions would lead to disproportionate increases in female crime when almost all the existing criminological literature stresses the role played by poverty, joblessness, and discrimination in the creation of crime (chesney-lind, 1997; miller; steffensmeier, 1980, 1993). This and other weaknesses in the gender equality hypothesis have been discussed at length elsewhere, as have more plausible explanations for the narrowing of differences for specific categories of crime. Recall that gender differences in arrest rates have by no means narrowed for all categories, actually increasing for some and remaining the same for others. Another issue receiving much attention is whether traditional theories of crime, developed by male criminologists to explain male crime, are equally useful in explaining female crime, or whether female crime can only be explained by gender-specific theories. Causal factors identified by traditional theories of crime such as anomie, social control, and differential association-social learning appear equally applicable to female and male offending (steffensmeier and allan, 1996). In this sense, traditional criminological theories are as useful in understanding overall female crime as they are in understanding overall male crime. They can also help explain why female crime rates are so much lower than male rates: for example, females develop stronger bonds and are subject to stricter parental control, but have less access to criminal opportunity. On the other hand, many of the subtle and profound differences between female and male offending patterns may be better understood by a gendered approach. Recent theoretical efforts, often drawing from the expanding literature on gender roles and feminism, typically involve "middle-range" approaches aimed at explaining this or that dimension of female criminality by linking it to specific aspects of the "organization of gender" (a term used here to denote identities, arrangements, and other areas of social life that differ markedly by gender). These approaches are reviewed briefly next, after which we discuss a broader gendered paradigm that offers a general theoretical framework for understanding female criminality and sex differences in offending. Cloward and piven, for example, argue that the persistence of gender segregation in the society at large differentially shapes the form and frequency of male and female deviance. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that female involvement in professional and organized crime continues to lag far behind male involvement. Broidy and agnew have speculated that the dynamics of gender shape both the types of strains males and females are exposed to and the emotional and behavioral responses available to them, thus leading to distinctly different outcomes. Chesney-lind (1997) further clarifies the different strains faced by females in her depiction of the differential impact of gender dynamics on the lives and experiences of boys and girls growing up in similar neighborhood and school environments. Specifically, gender-based socialization patterns set the stage for the sexual victimization and harassment of girls. Girls attempting to run away from abuse often end up in the streets with few legitimate survival options, so they gravitate toward crime, drug-use and -dealing, and sexual exchange transactions. Thus, the role of interpersonal victimization in female paths to crime often involves a circular dynamic in which victimization places some females at high risk for offending, which in turn puts them at risk for further victimization (daly; gilfus). This dynamic is especially problematic for minority and low income women whose risks for both crime and victimization are already heightened by limited access to resources (arnold; richie).

Gendered paradigm of female offending and the gender gap steffensmeier and allan (1996, 2000) provide another attempt to build a unified theoretical framework for explaining female criminality and gender differences in crime. Depicted in figure 1, their framework recognizes that (1) causal patterns for female crime often overlap those for male crime, but also (2) that continued profound differences between the lives of women and men produce varying patterns of female and male offending. At least five areas of life tend not only to inhibit female crime and encourage male crime, but also to shape the patterns of female offending that do occur: gender norms, moral development and affiliative concerns, social control, physical strength and aggression, and sexuality. These five areas overlap and mutually reinforce one another and, in turn, condition gender differences in criminal opportunities, motives, and contexts of offending. Femininity stereotypes are the antitheses of those qualities valued in the criminal subculture (steffensmeier, 1986); therefore, crime is almost always more destructive of life chances for females than for males. Female fear of sexual victimization reduces female exposure to criminal opportunity through the avoidance of bars, nighttime streets, and other crime-likely locations. Compared to men, women are more likely to refrain from crime due to concern for others. This may result from gender differences in moral development and from socialization toward greater empathy, sensitivity to the needs of others, and fear of separation from loved ones (gilligan). The ability and willingness of women to commit crime is powerfully constrained by social control. Muscle and physical prowess are functional not only for committing crimes, but also for protection, contract enforcement, and recruitment and management of reliable associates. This in turn may reduce the need for women to seek financial returns through serious property crimes. Collectively, the above aspects of the organization of gender serve to condition and shape additional features of female offending, including criminal opportunity, criminal motives, and contexts of crime. If anything, women face even greater occupational segregation in underworld crime groups, at every stage from selection and recruitment to opportunities for mentoring, skill development, and, especially, rewards (steffensmeier, 1983; commonwealth of pennsylvania). The subjective willingness of women to engage in crime is limited by factors of the organization of gender, but amplified by criminal opportunity. The organization of gender also impacts on the often profound differences in the contexts of female and male offenses. Miller's qualitative study of male and female robbery clarifies how gender shapes the context of robbery, even when motives are the same. Miller concludes that male and female robbery may be triggered by similar social and cultural factors, but that gender shapes the actual manner in which those robberies are l murders also illustrate striking male-female differences in context (dobash et al. The various aspects of the organization of gender discussed here—gender norms, moral and relational concerns, social control, lack of strength, and sexual identity—all contribute to gender differences in criminal opportunity, motivation, and context. These factors also help explain why women are far less likely than men to be involved in serious crime, regardless of data source, level of involvement, or measure of y the majority of girls and women involved in the criminal justice system have committed ordinary crimes—mostly minor thefts and frauds, low-level drug dealing, prostitution, and misdemeanor assaults against their mates or children. Some of them commit crime over several years and serve multiple jail or prison terms in the process. But they are not career criminals, and women are far less likely than men to be involved in serious crime. The gender gap for criminal offending is remarkably persistent across countries, population subgroups within a given country, and historical periods. This persistence can be explained in part by historical durability of the organization of gender and by underlying physical/sexual differences (whether actual or perceived). Recent theory and research on female offending have added greatly to our understanding of how the lives of delinquent girls and women continue to be powerfully influenced by gender-related conditions of life. Profound sensitivity to these conditions is essential for understanding gender differences in type and frequency of crime, for explaining differences in the context or gestalt of offending, and for developing preventive and remedial programs aimed at female l steffensmeier emilie also domestic violence; family abuse and crime; feminism: criminological aspects; feminism: legal aspects; prisons: prisons for women; graphy adler, freda. From victims to survivors to offenders: women's routes to entry and immersion into street crime. The interaction of race, gender, and age in criminal sentencing: the punishment cost of being young, black, and male. Transaction, a style below, and copy the text for your opedia of crime and opedia of crime and opedia of crime and more about citation the “cite this article” tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay ons between gender and relations between gender and crime are deep, persistent and paradoxical. Gender has been recognized as one of the most important factors that play a significant role in dealing with different kinds of crimes within criminal justice systems. Such a statement appears to have a significant effect on the way that both law and society respond to different kinds of crimes.

The idea that crimes are committed primarily by males has had a major effect on criminological thinking and on criminal justice policies. This effect is different from one society to another and from time to time within one society, since gender roles and expectations are aim of this essay is to consider how gender affects the way the law and society respond to different types of crime and violence. It will argue that gender plays a significant role in dealing with various crimes within the criminal justice system. Although as a general statement it can be said that the law does not differentiate between men and women, research conducted in the field of criminology have clearly shown that social characteristics of offenders such as race, gender and class, have influenced the decisions made in the cjs. This essay will consider whether society's views about gender roles and expectations affect the way that it responds to crimes, particularly violent crime. All of these issues and questions will be examined by using concrete examples (statistics and cases), without focusing on any one country or only one type of , crimes and cultural is no doubt that in all societies, response to crimes, particularly serious ones, is significantly affected by the gender of the defendants or sometimes the gender of the victims. There are some kinds of crimes that can be expected to be committed by women, but there are others that are not. On the one hand, there is no gender role corresponding to the former kinds of crimes, or at least it is not clear. On the other hand, if a woman commits a crime that society does not expect her to commit, such as killing her children, she will invariably be treated harshly by that society. Since regulations, in general, make no difference in dealing with crime on the basis of gender, in practice the situation may be today in some societies, women are perceived as sexual objects and are expected to remain within male-dominated ideologies such as homemaker and nurturer, subordinate to men. In fact, violence against females by their male relatives is something that may be accepted by the society and the family if she has been considered to have violated the traditional gender roles in her society. A woman who attacks her alleged batterer in these societies is considered to have violated “not just traditional gender roles of passivity and care-giving, but also a sexual hierarchy that grants men power over her. It is widely considered that women who commit crimes have been perceived as males that have the worst characteristics of females. Lombroso and ferrero (1985) emphasized that women who commit crimes are seen as genetically more male than female, therefore biologically abnormal. Moreover, it is commonly believed that women who commit crimes, particularly serious crimes, are either evil or mentally ill when they commit an addition, female defendants are viewed differently, as it is believed within some societies that women who conform are pure wives, mothers and respectful daughters who benefit society. Therefore, if they commit a crime, they will be categorized as 'mad,' not 'bad'. Non-conforming women may be those who engage in activities associated with men, or those who are likely to commit crimes. This point will be clear when the relevant cases will be discussed in the next part of this and the legal a significant improvement in responding to violent crimes in england and wales, new instructions issued to officers in a force order in june 1987 have been implemented. For example, in a study conducted in streatham, london in 1989, only 204 suspects were arrested out of 446 domestic violence-related crimes. S effect on the way that the law and society respond to different kinds of crimes can be seen from the fact that police hold stereotypical attitudes towards females and the crimes they commit. However, sex and gender sometimes have significance as legal categories in relation to criminal acts. Many judges think carefully before deciding to send a female to fact, such a hypothesis has been supported by research, which finds that women are less likely than men to commit crimes, especially violent crimes. Perhaps one of the main reasons for the fact that the crime rate for women is very low compared to men is that most law enforcement officers and judges are men. Moreover, the main expectation of many studies was that male defendants who were accused of killing women were more likely to be convicted and less likely to receive a reduced considering how gender affects the way that the law responds to different crimes, it is important to consider the practices of the police, the crown prosecutor's service, and the courts. The effectiveness of the criminal justice system remedies depends on their implementation in and police dealing with different kinds of crimes, some studies have suggested that the offenders' character and attitude is a key factor which influences the decision made by the police. However, although the sex of an offender plays a significant role in police decisions, it has been argued that the fate of women within the cjs in regard to crimes depends on how well a woman can represent the traditional stereotypical female role. Furthermore, it has been found that witnesses respond negatively to the crimes they have witnessed. For example, kitty genovese of new york was killed by her husband, watched by witnesses who thought it was none of their and courts considering the effect of gender on the treatment of defendants in the criminal justice process, female offenders were found more likely to be released even before the trial and they were less likely to be sentenced severely. The impact of gender in the way that the law and society respond to different kinds of crimes can be clearly seen in court of all, criminality in men was a common feature of their natural character, whereas women's biologically-determined nature was antithetical to crime. On the one hand, it has been argued that, because of the fact that women are seen as less of a risk to society, when they do commit a crime, they will be treated leniently. Albonetti (1991) considered this as one important impact of offender gender on judges and jury in making lenient decisions; when the offenders are female, there should be no or less certainty.

On the other hand, viewed as more culpable for their crimes and posing a greater risk, males would be treated more harshly. Thornton, meanwhile, continues to serve her life rmore, heidensohn (1985) argues that extreme harshness is experienced against women in the courts because they are, as offenders, very rare due to their low levels of crime and the rarity of ever appearing in court; therefore, it is likely that more of them will be convicted for their offences. The reduction in penalty on appeal has been seen as a degree of leniency in the punishment of her addition, it is important, in order to consider how gender affects the way that the law responds to different crimes, to know whether victim gender interacts with offender gender. It has been found that there was interactive effect between victim gender and offender gender, in that males convicted of victimizing females were punished more harshly than any other victim gender/offender gender combination. It has been stated that victim gender may not affect the chances of imprisonment, particularly for violent crime, but it may have a significant impact on sentencing e the fact that laws on paper deal with men and women equally, it is not guaranteed that male and female defendants will be treated equally. The way that both society and the legal system respond to different kinds of crimes—elements such as political statutes, class, ethnicity, physical and mental disability and age—may play significant cases where women are accused, the police distinguish between two kinds of women, ‘good mothers' and ‘bad mothers'. This may justify the argument that it is not the gender of the offender which influences sentencing, but the female's role within the family. Furthermore, morris (1987) pointed out that magistrates' courts took into consideration the women's domestic circumstances, such as the responsibility for children, when they decided sentences against researches and cases that have been discussed, it has become clear that both the conviction and sentencing stages of criminal procedures are affected by the gender of victims and defendants, and, in general, female defendants are treated more leniently by the courts. Namely, women commit a small percentage of all crime, crimes committed by females are less serious, rarely professional and less likely to be repeated, and, consequently, women formed a small proportion of prison tti, c. 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H, the interaction of race, gender, and age and criminal sentencing: the punishment cost of being young, black, and male, 1998, 36 guardian: (10. H, the interactive effects of victim race and gender on death sentence disparity findings, 2004, 8 (4) homicide studies. For laws which criminalize sexual acts, see sex article is one of a series on:Sex differences in nal differences in crime are differences between men and women as the perpetrators or victims of crime. Despite the difficulty of interpreting them, crime statistics may provide a way to investigate such a relationship from a gender differences perspective. An observable difference in crime rates between men and women might be due to social and cultural factors, crimes going unreported, or to biological factors (for example, testosterone or sociobiological theories). Taking the nature of the crime itself into consideration may also be a tics have been consistent in reporting that men commit more criminal acts than women. Some differing explanations include men's evolutionary tendency toward risk and violent behavior, sex differences in activity, social support, and gender inequality. 1998)[5] assessed gottfredson and hirschi's (1990) "general theory of crime," which stated that individuals with lower levels of self-control are more likely to be involved in criminal behavior, in a gender-sensitive context. The purpose of their study was to account for the gender gap in crime rates. Early results from the study indicated that low self-control was highly positively correlated to criminal behavior in both genders, but was especially significant for males. Similarly, the authors conclude that women are less likely to be exposed to opportunities for criminal behavior, speculating that "constraints often placed on females, and that accompany their lifestyles" contribute to less opportunity for crime. With self-control being significant for males but not for females, the conclusions of this study pointed toward the notion that men and women commit crimes for different reasons. The notion that self-control was only significant for women when combined with opportunity helps account for the gender gap seen in crime rates. Rowe, alexander vazsonyi, and daniel flannery, authors of sex differences in crime: do means and within-sex variation have similar causes? 3] focus on the widely acknowledged fact that there is a large sex difference in crime: more men than women commit crimes. 1] also, there are a more equal[clarification needed] number of men that commit serious crimes resulting in injury or death than women. 9] they look at the taxonomy theory, which states that the gender difference in crime are based on sex differences in the risk factors for life-course-persistent antisocial behavior.

Information: feminist school of criminology § gender erations of gender in regard to crime have been considered to be largely ignored and pushed aside in criminological and sociological study, until recent years, to the extent of female deviance having been marginalized. 10] in the past fifty years of sociological research into crime and deviance, sex differences were understood and quite often mentioned within works, such as merton's theory of anomie; however, they were not critically discussed, and often any mention of female delinquency was only as comparative to males, to explain male behaviors, or through defining the girl as taking on the role of a boy, namely, conducting their behavior and appearance as that of a tomboy and by rejecting the female gender role, adopting stereotypical masculine and steffen suggested in their meta-analysis of data on sex and aggression that beliefs about the negative consequences of violating gender expectations affect how both genders behave regarding aggression. Key reason contended for this lack of attention to females in crime and deviance is due to the view that female crime has almost exclusively been dealt with by men, from policing through to legislators, and that this has continued through into the theoretical approaches, quite often portraying what could be considered as a one-sided view, as mannheim suggested. Theories have been contended, with many debates surrounding the involvement and ignoring of women within theoretical studies of crime; however, with new approaches and advances in feminist studies and masculinity studies, and the claims of increases in recent years in female crime, especially that of violent crime. Information: sociobiology and sociobiological theories of ionary psychology has proposed several evolutionary explanations for gender differences in aggressiveness. 21] thus, crime can be seen as an extreme form of adaptation to gain status and acquire more resources. The literature generally finds that women are more commonly the victims of domestic violence,[27][29] a small percentage of research study suggests that rates of physical aggression within the context of dating and marriage tend to be similar for men and women, or that women are more likely to commit domestic violence against a partner; this is known as gender symmetry. 2008 review published in the journal violence and victims found that although less serious situation violence or altercation was equal for both genders, more serious and violent abuse was perpetrated by men. Study has noted substantial differences in the treatment and behavior of defendants in the courts on the basis of gender; female criminologist frances heidensohn postulates that for judges and juries it is often "impossible to isolate the circumstances that the defendant is a woman from the circumstances that she can also be a widow, a mother, attractive, or may cry on the stand. 39] furthermore, male and female defendants in court have reported being advised to conduct themselves differently in accordance with their gender; women in particular recall being advised to express "mute passivity," whereas men are encouraged to "assert themselves" in cross-examinations and testimony. Information: crime in the united the united states, men are much more likely to be incarcerated than women. 2003 to 2012, there was a decrease in the rate of crime overall, but an increase in crimes committed by women. 44] the trend results from 2003-2012 showed the vast majority of crimes were still committed by men with around 88% of homicides and 75% of all legal felonies. Information: crime in ing to a canadian public health agency report, the rate of violent crime doubled among male youth during the late 1980s and 1990s, while it almost tripled among female youth. Some researchers have suggested that the increase on crime statistics could be partly explained by the stricter approach to schoolyard fights and bullying, leading to a criminalization of behaviors now defined as "assault" behaviors (while they were simply negatively perceived before). The increase in the proportion of female violent crime would thus be explained more by a change in law enforcement policies than by effective behavior of the population itself. Article: homicide statistics by ing to the data given by the united nations office on drugs and crime, worldwide, 78. 53] a 2013 global study on homicide by the united nations office on drugs and crime found that males accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide. 54] also, according to the united nations office on drugs and crime, the percent of victims killed by their spouses or ex-spouses in 2011 were 77. Indeed, as richard collier notes, 'most crimes would remain unimaginable without the presence of men (collier, 1998; see also jefferson, 2002). Direct and indirect aggression during childhood and adolescence: a meta-analytic review of gender differences, intercorrelations, and relations to maladjustment". Basingstoke: graphy on "girls and violence" on the university of glasgow's bibliography concerning gender & crime with descriptions, from the oxford university press on-line ence of imprisonment in the u. Differences in nal and sexual ilia, androphilia, tion to transgender ers of sex -dystonic sexual target location female and gender reassignment ity and gender identity-based construction of neurogenderings ce against women & men (gendercide). 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