Essay On Feminist Criminology

There are several assumptions, neglect, and stereotypes when it comes to feminist criminology. Plenty of questions have arose about females that commit crimes. Some questions consist of females as professionals as well as female offenders and victims. To be able to understand feminist theories of crime, we must understand that there’s not just one feminist perspective. First we need to understand what feminism is, it is the belief that woman and men are inherently of equal worth. In society we privilege men as a whole group. We have identified differences between men and women as either sex or gender differences. Sex typically refers to one’s biological characteristics, such are their reproductive systems. Gender refers to social definitions of what it means to be a “man” or a “woman.” We can get confused …show more content…
An important part to this ideology is that women’s nature is biologically, not socially, determined. For example, we hear cases were mother’s harm, or even kill their children and we ask ourselves, “How could a mother do that to her child/children?” As a society do we see these such offenses committed by a mother “in a different way” than similar offenses committed by the father? So we must explore how gender effects our attitudes about criminal actions as well as criminal delinquents. Many of us would answer yes, to the question above and others would oppose that this is due to stereotypes such as the opinion that woman have a biologically sense of maternal and nurturing capabilities. Liberation thesis, (Freda Adler, Rita Simon) as opportunities for woman in the legal scope are enriched, so are opportunities for women in the illegal scope. Increases in female crime may be due to women becoming dynamically competitive with men. Power control theory (John Hagan) Family dynamics, patriarchal families, egalitarian families, and social