SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Typification, Moral Panic
11 Jan 2017
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Some problems with the study of female young offenders that explain female offending. Common features found among female offenders theories movement (paternalization) Liberation hypothesis: argues girls offending has become more prevalent due to women"s liberation, females engage in delinquency because it is liberating. Social inquiry hypothesis )ssue of survival - chivalry hypothesis: see them as victim society not as deviants, police more lenient with female offenders how do we make sense of female. Solution: (cid:498)fix(cid:499) the problem (cid:523)problem with the person(cid:524) Solution: accountability (hold criminals responsible to stop from reoffending, consequences for those who break the law) Problem: all three are not separate solutions (have to consider all approaches) According to thomas bernard, which of the following (cid:498)myths(cid:499) about the history of youth crime may actually be true: some things are better now than in the past. Public fear and immoral indignation about youth crime is: best understood as a moral panic.
