Criminology Gender Blind

‘’Is criminology “gender-blind” : women and crime’’ Brilly Amancio 04-10-2013 Criminal Justice 212 Criminology Prof: Christopher Geraghty Brilly Amancio Is criminology “gender-blind” : women and crime( by and against) Woman in Criminology has a really big change from back in the days till now. Before woman where not that involved in crime either if it was in the good side like being a cop, detective, lieutenant, or of it was in the bad side, as to being the one committing the crime. Criminology, as with all academic disciplines, was a male-dominated sphere.

Men regarded the world through a very narrow lens, and the experiences of women rarely provoked serious interest. Back in the days woman where more likely to stay home, cook, take care of kids and wait for their husbands to get home, not even work. Woman were not much socialized with society other than other woman and did not spend much time in the streets as men did. Woman were not viewed as a big factor in society rather than the male which was the man working to bring food home. There were not much activity for a woman to be out in the streets much as too like sports and obs. Very few of them would practice one of those options. Where woman were mostly considered as as a criminal was with prostitution. This was the most popular crimes for woman since it was hard to find a woman or a young girl being in a gang since back in the days there was more discipline with kids and woman depended on their husbands. Men were more involved in crimes since they were in the streets more, hanging out with friends, playing sports or working since women were not really able to work much or just believes were much different back then. Most police officers, etectives, judges or anything involved with law enforcement were men. Now a days everything is equal, there is as much woman involved in crimes and the law enforcement just like men. Ever since woman became more independent they have been more involved in crimes as such as stealing, murdered, kid napping and a ton of different other crimes. When woman first started getting more involved in crimes was more with an influence of men. Either a lover or close friends. Now they make their decisions to be involved in crimes by themselves just like men do. Accordin g to www. ukdissertation. om and this is their explination of why there are more woman in jail right now ‘’ Carlen summarises the responses given as thus: (1) more women are committing violent crimes; (2) more women who would not have previously gone to prison are going due to increasing involvement with drugs; (3)more black women are going to prison so racism may be the key; or (4)prison is being used to incarcerate the same social categories for women that it always has – the destitute, the most obviously gender deviant, and the mentally disturbed – but the numbers of women presenting themselves in these categories ave increased with growing economic inequality (Carlen, 1998: 51). Another explanation is that women are becoming more violent, indeed the proportion of female prisoners under sentence for crimes of violence against the person was indeed (at 20 per cent) only two present less than the proportion of male prisoners. Fletcher (1975, in Carlen, 1998: 52) supports this view: ‘It is undoubtedly the case that the level of convictions of violence against the person has increased among women. ’ However, he also points out that, ‘the female prison population has … risen steeply whilst serious convictions have actually allen’; suggesting that this may be due to longer sentences being served. As will be seen later, it is much more likely that it is the increase in more punitive sentencing for trivial crimes that is more likely to offer an explanation. Things have changed a lot over the last couple of years. But this does not mea that woman are punished just as the same as men are. According to Wikipedia men are more likel to become incarcerated then woman would and this is their their facts ‘’ In the United States, men are much more likely to be incarcerated than women.

Nearly 9 times as many men (5,037,000) as women (581,000) had ever at one time been incarcerated in a State or Federal prison at year end 2001. However, women are the fastest-growing demographic group in prison. [1]. In 2004, males were almost 10 times more likely than females to commit murder, including rape-homicides. However, men are also far more likely than women to be the victims of violent crime, with the exception of rape. There my be a lot of explanations for this like men are more likely to be more aggressive than woman so they tend to get in more altercations and tend to act out of rage more than oman do. Young teenagers have become really popular in the juvenile system. The number of female teenagers has increased a lot in the juvenile system as to the number of female teenagers that are dropping out of school or just kicked out for their irrational behavior. Still so male is the biggest crime predator in everyone’s eye, everyone is conscious of how the number of female criminal has increased men is still the number one target. I this unfair? Yes it is yes in a lot of cases woman are treated harshly but like like in every case that males do. Bibliography: http://en. wikipedia. rg/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime http://www. routledge. com/books/details/9780415644174/ http://www. roxbury. net/womencrime. html http://www. law-essays-uk. com/resources/sample-essays/criminology/gender-and-crime. php http://books. google. com/books? id=r3IMdD2xZ8MC&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&dq=Is+criminology+%22gender-blind%22+:+women+and+crime(+by+and+against)&source=bl&ots=AZphi3RxKq&sig=BaNiS4rUFnLVygUIWcLrQSjtWeI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BJNkUezPK87y0wGF74EQ&ved=0CG4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Is%20criminology%20%22gender-blind%22%20%3A%20women%20and%20crime(%20by%20and%20against)&f=false