Essay On Juvenile Criminology

Feminine criminology really covers not just how crime relates to gender, but also how it relates to race, socioeconomic background and also the way gender is interpreted. The gap between gender really played a major role in the 20th century when males and females were experiencing different sentencing for the same types of crimes. Along with that, women did not receive the same rights as men, and they were even neglected the rights to attend certain types of schools. All of this highlights society’s values and the profiling that continues to occur in today’s time. Black women are the largest race of females that we incarcerate, and I believe this is due to the focus that we put on this group. Black women have been noted to be looked down …show more content…
This wouldn’t come across as a shock or a major incident. If the tables were turned a little and a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, middle class woman were to commit this same offense, the news stations would be broadcasting this story in every possible way. It isn’t really all about the actual event at hand; it is more about how it is interpreted. In a particular case from my hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida a wealthy man by the name of John Goodman killed a twenty-three year old boy. John was driving while being under the intoxication of alcohol. I can remember this story being on every news channel, and it was all anyone could ever talk about. John Goodman is a polo millionaire and the fact that he was well known and had a high income, made people depict this incident even more. Also because the life that he took was of such a young person, made people even more outraged. If this was a story of another black man, who murdered someone while drunk driving, society might not even pay this story much attention at all. This demonstrates how feminist criminology has highlighted the importance of profiling and stereotyping individuals into categories when crimes are