SOCY 389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Male Privilege
9 Jan 2017
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Policing, adult and juvenile courts: social science research on sentencing: design, 2 further research lines: Gender equality in cjs: policing and discretion. Men are 3 times more likely to get arrested than women. Could be because men are 3 times more likely to commit crimes and commit more serious crimes. Legal factors: the seriousness of the offence. (driving speed, weapons, violence). Cristy visher: empirical study in the us looking at police warnings. Men 11% tended to stop more than women 7%. Might be because men are driving more than women and may be speeding more than women. Men were more likely to be pulled over, searched and handcuffed. Extra-legal factors played a role, demeanour was important. Leniency was not that common, but more likely with women than men. Women who were white, middle-class, older and showed deference, were more likely to receive leniency, because officers viewed them as ladies.
