Gender Roles and Female Criminality Some Critical Comments

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ID9680148
AuthorsStephen Norland (University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author), Neal Shover (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
Year1977
Volume15
Issue1
Pages87-104
Publication date1977-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCriminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-9125.1977.tb00050.x
OpenAlexW1971964034
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited20

This paper investigates the recent claim that women are becoming increasingly involved in aggressive or serious criminal activities. On the basis of an a priori classification of aggressive crimes, a review of three different types of data reveals no unambiguous pattern of change in women's criminality. Several theoretical problems which hove inhibited the systematic development of the relationships between gender roles and criminality are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the lack of conceptual precision that characterizes the use of the terms gender and aggressive crime

A priori and a posteriori · Criminology · Epistemology · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

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