Exam 16: Feminist Criminology

Feminist criminology was partly the product of the re-emergence of feminism from:

Otto Pollak (1961) argued that women are more devious than men because:

For much of criminology's history women have been:

What is the basis for the 'emancipation thesis' in the 1970s?

Why does Heidensohn argue that appreciative criminology that replaced early criminological thought ignored or excluded women from their studies?

In early criminology some attention was paid to women as for Lombroso, women Were especially influenced by:

It is argued that a number of questions cannot be answered using traditional criminological theory designed to aid understanding of male offending. These include:

Control theory has little to say about the understanding of women's offending.

What are the arguments for and against a feminist criminology?

Feminist scholarship is arguably the most important development in the past 30-40 years:

By and large, the idea that it is biological differences that are the primary cause of the distinctive patterns of male and female offending has disappeared from criminology, though an exception to this, as is the work of Dalton (1977) on the link between:

What is meant by patriarchy in terms of feminist criminology?

Although Lombroso's, Pollak's and Thomas's is much discredited now, they are still worth consideration.

It has been argued that the 'emancipation thesis' was more about women's new roles than a fundamental change in women themselves, and therefore not worth considering.

Women are criminalised less then men.

In terms of feminist criminology Lombroso's work is now considered to be:

According to Thomas (1923) the female criminal:

According to Heidenshohn what are the often subtle ways in which women's lives are subjected to high levels of informal social control (Feeley and Little, 1991) ?

It is said that women are treated as 'doubly deviant' because they often use their children as an excuse for committing crime.