CRIM 104 Lecture 4: crim 104 lec 4
15 Apr 2016
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In more egalitarian households (father and mother work/ share child-rearing), the mother may be able to exert greater influence on the boys, encouraging them to be less risk taking and less delinquent. Mother"s position in household and in workforce may encourage girls to be more risk-taking, and hence more likely to become delinquent. However, the mother"s position of dominance may encourage girls to be more risk-taking. Men and boys are perpetrators of most crimes, and have virtual monopolies on some kinds of crime. Instead of asking why women don"t commit crimes, criminologists should ask why men do. Have access to power and normative self-enhancement structures not available to lower working class boys. Go about accomplishing their masculinity in a different way. Develop accommodating masculinity , aimed at institutional success. Develop an opposition masculinity , based on hegemonic ideals that school discourages. Hate crimes disproportionately committed by groups of white, working class boys.
