CRM 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Critical Criminology, Masculinity, Casual Sex
17 Feb 2017
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They criticized mainstream criminology and critical criminology for not looking at the gender gap in offenders. There is a possibility that the quest to attain masculine status of power" may be linked to male criminality. Masculinity is a social construct and it is a learned behaviour; it is not biological. What it means to be a man can change from time to time and there are different types of masculinity, but the conventional ideas of it tend to be linked to being aggressive and domineering. In order to understand the gender gap in offending, we need to understand how men define and demonstrate their masculinity. Constructions of masculinity might explain the dominance of men in crime statistics compared with women. Because masculinity is a behavioral response to the particular conditions and situation in which men participate, different types of masculinities exist in the school, the youth groups, the streets, the family and the workplace.
