CRJ 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Embezzlement

• School: ASU
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJ 305
• Professor: Amanda Lindsay

Document Summary

Offenses are less serious and less violent crime. Females account for fewer than 1 in 5 arrests for violent crimes. Females account for 1 in 3 arrests for property crime. Females account for 1 in 4 arrests overall. Men are 4 times as likely to commit both property and violent crime than woman. To understand feale offending context: the extent of female offending, the nature of female offending (type, stereotypes and assumptions about female offending, gender comparisons in offending, differences between male and female offending, historical aspects of offending. What"s the picture? (extent males offend at rates about 5 to 10x higher than females (nature) historically. Most common example of female-gendered-related crime is sex work. Explain changing patterns in offending: gender stability: differences between gender and crime rates remain the same over time, gender divergence: gender differences in crime increases over time, gender convergence: offending rates become similar over time.