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1
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What are the 4 feminist explanations of crime and deviance?

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  1. Women commit less crime than men: the social construction of gender roles
  2. Patriarchal society generates crimes against women
  3. Feminist criticisms of the chivalry thesis
  4. Increase in female criminality: changing gender roles
2
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What percentage of women get arrested?

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18%

3
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What percentage of the prison population is add up of women?

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5%

4
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Who argues that women commit less crime than men:the social construction of gender roles?

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Heidensohn

5
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What can be used to support Heidensohn’s argument that women commit less crime than men?

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McRobbie - bedroom culture

6
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Who argues that patriarchal society generates crimes against women by men: domestic violence?

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Walklate
Dobash and Dobash
Johnson

7
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Who argues the feminist response of the chivalry thesis?

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Heidensohn’s double deviance theory

8
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Who argues the chivalry thesis?

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Pollak

9
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Who argues the increase in female criminality?

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Adler

Denscombe