SOC 2700 Chapter Notes -High Tech, Grammatical Gender, Differential Association
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Gender is the strongest and most consistent correlate of crime and delinquency. Males are much more likely to offend than females. There are many branches of feminist criminology. The initial feminist writings were critiques of traditional criminology theories for ignoring or heavily distorting a number of topics related to women offenders. When the gendered nature of crime was addressed, the theories tended to focus on supposed characteristics that implied women s inferiority and tended to reinforce women s subordination to men in the larger society. Traditional criminology theories also failed to address the differences in the ways women and men were treated by the criminal justice system. Also none discuses the new roles women were taking on in the larger society as part of what in the 1970s was called women s liberation. 2 books on the subject of women and crime appeared in 1975.
