Sociology Feminism

Question 1

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Answer 1

P - Women are treated unequally to men
E - MOJ 2017 - “74% of prosecutions were male, 26% were female”
E - Feminist - Radford - Personal element to crime, doubly deviant
Functionalist - Durkheim - Shared Values, organic analogy
L - Feminism offers better explanation than Functionalism

Question 2

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Answer 2

P - Women Commit fewer crimes
E - MOJ 2016 - “85% of arrests accounted for were male”
E - Feminist - Heidensohn - women lack opportunity
Functionalist - Cohen - Subculture and Juvenile Crime
L - Feminism offers better explanation than Functionalism

Question 3

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Answer 3

P - Criminal justice system favours men
E - MOJ 2016 - “ Females are 134% more likely to self harm in prison”
E - Feminist - Walklate - Rape Trails
New Right - Murray - Underclass
L - Feminism offers better explanation than New Right

Question 4

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Answer 4

P - Women are underepresented in the criminal jusctice system
E - MOJ 2016 - “Females were 93% less likely to be sentenced”
E - Feminist - Carlen - gender and class deal
Postmodernist - Harvey - evidence of social problems
L - Feminism offers better explanation than Postmodernist

Question 5

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Answer 5

P - A rise in female crime
E - MOJ 2016 - “71% of homicide victims are male”
E - Feminist - Adler - Womens liberation
Postmode - Henry and Milonovic - harms of repression and reduction
L - Feminism offers better explanation than Postmodernist.