womens crime sociologists

name sociologists who have done research into women and crime

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chivalry thesis - men are socialised to protect not arrest women so CJS nice to women	Pollak
found women are less likely to be jailed for similar cases in study of over 3000 cases	Hood
review of self report studies found women are not treated more leniently by the CJS	Box
observed 2x as many men shoplifting as women despite stats saying there's equal rates	Buckle + Farrington
a woman suffers, on average, 35 assaults before reporting domestic violence	Yearnshire
magistrate perception of female defendants based on typical gender roles	Stewart
criminal justice system is patriarchal + victim blaming when dealing with rape cases	Smart
women seen as less respectable punished more harshly than women seen as respectable	Carlen
functionalist sex role theory - girls are socialised in a way which discourages crime	Parsons


criticise sex role theory for biological assumptions in men/womens best suited roles	Walklate
control theory - patriarchal control mean women have less opportunity to commit crime	Heidensohn
many violent attacks come from mens dissatisfaction with their wives domestic duties	Dobash + Dobash
class + gender deals - if reward is unavailable/not seen as worth it, women turn to crime	Carlen
liberation thesis - as women become liberated from patriarchy, they'll commit more crime	Adler
policy of mandatory arrests for domestic violence distort female stats as couples fight	Chesney-Lind
CJS professionals influenced by media stereotypes of "ladettes" - moral panic	Sharpe
self report studies - smaller gender differences in crime that official stats show	Graham + Bowling
offending is biological + innate not sociological, there are very few born female criminals	Ferrero