The Relationship Between Gender And The Criminal Justice System

This is a man’s world! Indeed it is a man’s world with the having all the money, power, and respect. Given opportunities to get the best education, jobs, and hold the highest incomes and meeting all the qualifications that set the standards for a high class status. Class and Gender are seen as independent variables, having no connection with each other. Class is known to be an untouched subject in society and in our criminal justice system. Leaving behind the notion that “anyone can make it if they try hard enough”, but this has been shown to be false. Studying the interaction between Class and Gender, women were doomed from the start and man were always more likely to succeed. Women faced oppression and inequalities that made it difficult for them to be placed in a Class. …show more content…
Men hold the power and prestige, they have the income and wealth which are elements of status that women have failed to obtain due to the lack of opportunities and inequalities. This interaction should be considered when it comes to the study of crime and the criminal justice system because Class and Gender will be looked at as affecting one another, men and women while be studied side by side, income and wealth distribution between women and man will be studied, there will be quantitative and qualitative data studied in combination on crimes that men and women commit and on crimes that people with power commit. This paper will discuss the interaction between gender and class and why it is important to consider when it comes to the study of crime and the criminal justice