SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Differential Association, Moral Panic, Androcentrism
11 Apr 2013
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Males outnumber females as offenders in all societies and time period for which records are available. The more serious the crime, the more males outnumber females. Although female and male offenders engage in somewhat different types of crime and commit crimes in distinctive ways, they have much in common. Their early lives, personal characteristics, and motivations appear to be more similar than different. The social environments that increase their risks of offending are similar. Focused on men, data of men, by men, etc. Caused by women"s sexuality, biology, or individual pathology. Early theorists were men who had little understanding of the social worlds of women and girls. Female criminality tends to be less serious than male criminality. Historically, women have tended more often than men to be excluded from the justice system, by lenient treatment. People were less likely to press criminal charges, or call the police in comparison to if a man committed the same offence.
