Gender: The Misconception Of Gender And Crime

In this section, previous research will be reviewed to help support my hypotheses. A number of factors may influence crime occurrence. One such factor includes demographics. Cohen and Harvey (2006) examine the misconceptions of gender: sex, masculinity and the measurement of crime. The misconception of gender and crime is that males commit more crime than females in the meaning of sex. To get the results required for this research Cohen and Harvey conducted a survey. The purpose of the study was to see if individuals that consider themselves as male conducted more crimes than those who considered themselves as females. This research then went on to analyze previously conducted research to help support the outcome. The results of the study …show more content…
Throughout the article Sweeten, Piquero, and Steinberg (2013) examine the effect age has on crime. The article explains how certain changes occur between youth and adulthood. This research tries to gain its answers by using data from the Pathways to Desistance study. The result of this study shows social control, procedural justice, learning, strain, psychosocial maturity, and rational choice separately explain anywhere from 3 % to 49 % of the age-crime relationship. Together, changes in these constructs explain 69 % of the drop in crime from ages 15 to 25. The research concludes that the relationship between age and crime in adolescence and early adulthood is largely explainable, due to the attributes of multiple co-occurring developmental …show more content…
Shihadeh (2009) evaluates two different views on the social isolation–crime link. The first is the shift of middle and rich blacks from black central cities, which create a black class isolation. The second identifies the change of racial isolation, where blacks become separated from whites. In this research a unit of analysis of the 278 block groups within the incorporated city limits of Baton Rouge, Louisiana was used. Using data from the police department in the 278 block Shihadeh collects the necessary information needed. In addition, Shihadeh also uses census data to help support the research. The results of the research show that there is a relationship between violence and black class isolation. Tables included in the research shows that the completed homicide rate in communities without a black majority is only 2.16, whereas in communities with a black majority it is 27.18, nearly 13 times higher. Attempted murder, robbery, and other crimes also have a higher crime rate in black majority communities than a non-black majority. The overall conclusion from this research states that when comparing the effects of African American class isolation to racial isolation, the former has intense effects on the rates of violent