SOC225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Marxist Feminism, Paternalism, Double Standard
2 May 2018
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Gender and the CJS
● Research Questions
○ How much female crime is there?
○ How does the extent and nature of female crime compare to male
crime?
○ Is female crime increasing?
○ Is female crime increasing at a faster rate than male crime?
○ Is female crime changing?
○ Are male and female offenders treated the same by the criminal
justice system?
○ Can traditional criminological theory account for female criminality?
● Women as a % of adults charged with Criminal Code offences (1979 - 2009)
○ Represent a minority of offenders
○ It is precisely because of the relatively small # of females committing
crimes that it is critical that we monitor these numbers otherwise
differences in experiences of women in the CJS may be masked by
trends created by the male population
○ Of all adults charged with crime, this is how much were women
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men
○ Hoeer, this does’t ea that oe’s propert crie is
increasing, just their SHARE is
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● Rate of adult males charged by police by offence category (1979 - 2009)
● Rate of adult females charged by police by offence category (1979 - 2009)
● Violent offences in women have increased, and continues to increase up
until 2001
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Document Summary
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