ANT211H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: White-Collar Crime, Hunter-Gatherer, Larceny
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Women and crime- evolutionary approach by campbell et al. Property offenses reflect women"s attempts to provision themselves whileviolence reflects female - female competition for provisioning males. Keywords: women; crime; evolution; sex differences two major questionshave driven theorising about sex differences in crime; the extent to which thesame variables explain crime in both sexes and why fem ales are less criminalthan males. The long period of human infant dependency means that women typicallybenefit from assistance with p rovisioning during their reproductive years. In human hunter- gatherer societies, women provide the bulk of caloriesconsumed by the family by foraging in the vicinity of the village with nursinginfants. In contemporary western society, single women cannot easily combine childcarewith waged labour and state aid is provided for single mothers. Such aid may depend upon the number of children the women has alreadyproduced and the financial co ntribution is small.
