Gender and crime
Women's acts of violence, compared to those of men, result in fewer injuries and less serious injuries. Of homicide victims are male, and in 193 of the 202 listed countries or regions, males were more likely to be killed than females.
Along with these differences, criminalized girls and women share with their male counterparts certain attributes: girls and women who commit crimes are likely to come from economically marginalized communities, many have very spotty employment histories, and many of the girls and women in prison are members of racial minority groups. International human rights law and domestic violence: the effectiveness of international human rights law, oxford new york: taylor & francis, p.
45] another report by the us department of justice on non-fatal domestic violence from 2003-2012 found that 76 percent of domestic violence was committed against women and 24 percent were committed against men. Through the study of gender, crime, and victimization, feminist scholars refocused attention on male offenders and the role played by male gender expectations in crime.
In accordance with this hypothesis, enforcement officers and judges are less likely to see women defendants as ‘posing a threat' to society and they believe that those defendants need to be protected, thus subsequently affecting their sentencing decision. 18] the first one is the challenge hypothesis which states that testosterone would increase during puberty thus facilitating reproductive and competitive behaviour which would include aggression as a result of evolution.
Albonetti (1991) considered this as one important impact of offender gender on judges and jury in making lenient decisions; when the offenders are female, there should be no or less certainty. Women have historically and unquestionably been treated in overly controlling ways, especially in patriarchal systems that value “good” women, that is, those who are largely subservient to men and to male-created institutions.
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The result of this andocentric focus is that theories of crime and justice were really theories of male crime and justice. Adult black males had the highest homicide conviction rate compared to offenders in other racial and sex categories.
The idea that crimes are committed primarily by males has had a major effect on criminological thinking and on criminal justice policies. In fact, violence against females by their male relatives is something that may be accepted by the society and the family if she has been considered to have violated the traditional gender roles in her society.
The police simply categorize women as non-serious and non-persistent offenders; therefore, they are less likely to be arrested by the police. The results of largely male-based studies have been used to craft programs, interventions, and punishments that would be applied to all offenders.
This difference appears to be related to a variety of factors: pregnancy, responsibilities for small children, the greater likelihood to demonstrate remorse, as well as perceptions that women are less dangerous and more amenable to rehabilitation (daly; steffensmeier, ulmer, and kramer). The reduction in penalty on appeal has been seen as a degree of leniency in the punishment of her addition, it is important, in order to consider how gender affects the way that the law responds to different crimes, to know whether victim gender interacts with offender gender.
Theories have been contended, with many debates surrounding the involvement and ignoring of women within theoretical studies of crime; however, with new approaches and advances in feminist studies and masculinity studies, and the claims of increases in recent years in female crime, especially that of violent crime. On the other hand, viewed as more culpable for their crimes and posing a greater risk, males would be treated more harshly.
Furthermore, it has been argued that white and black females occupy different rungs on the social hierarchy. By the 1980s and 1990s, gang studies found somewhat increased involvement on the part of girls (perhaps 15%), including some allfemale gangs.
They find it difficult when the former are accused and the opposite with the latter. Some differing explanations include men's evolutionary tendency toward risk and violent behavior, sex differences in activity, social support, and gender inequality.
Attention is paid to important theoretical perspectives informing the field of gender and crime; female pathways to crime; recent trends in female criminality; and, finally, women’s experience of the criminal justice system, including important trends in the imprisonment of girls and . Many other researchers have agreed with this and have stated that criminal behavior is an expression of inter-male competition in mating efforts and resource seeking since there is a huge correlation between criminals and fathering children at younger ages.
A, offended parties and official reactions: victims and the sentencing of criminal defendants, 1979, 20 sociological , b. The way that both society and the legal system respond to different kinds of crimes—elements such as political statutes, class, ethnicity, physical and mental disability and age—may play significant cases where women are accused, the police distinguish between two kinds of women, ‘good mothers' and ‘bad mothers'.
