Gender socialisation Evaluation

What is the issue of cause and effect?

there are more male prisoners and does that mean that men are more criminal or that they are more likely to be caught

How does chivalry thesis explain the difference in male and female criminality?

Otto Pollack 1950s says that women get away with crime because the police act chivalrous towards them not because they are socialised differently

How is the chivalry thesis critiqued?

women are breaking gender roles with an increase in violent crimes

What does Pat carlen 1997 find about how perception can change criminality rates?

Women were less likely to be imprisoned who were perceived to be good mothers than women with children in care systems

How is it reductionist?

Reduces criminal behaviour to the socialisation of genders however there is a real biological difference between men and women.

Dabbs et al (1987) found 10 out of 11 violent criminals had high testosterone levels.

What are the concerns of validity?

Temporal validity lots of theories such as chivalry thesis are out dated.