Gender, Crime and Justice

• Topics

  • Introduction: Gendered Patterns of Offending
  • 'Girls won't be Boys': Theoretical Explanations for Women's Offending
  • 'Boys will be Boys': Theoretical Explanations for Men's Offending
  • Gendered Patterns of Violent Victimisation
  • Controlling Women: Theorising Women and Violent Victimisation
  • 'Boys Don't Cry': Theorising, Men and Violent Victimisation
  • Is Chivalry Dead?: The Gendered Nature of Sentencing
  • New Research Findings 1
  • Women's Imprisonment
  • Masculinity and Prison Sub-Culture
  • New Research Findings 2
  • New Research Findings 3

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

    • Disscusion forum/Discussion Board
    • Online Quizzes/Tests
    • Online assignment submission
    • Podcasting/Leacture capture

  • Online Materials

    • Printable format materials
    • Online Assessment
    • Quizzes

Entry Requirements

Others

This is not an introductory subject, it is a second year subject. You must have a basic understanding of the first year criminology subjects.

Special requirements

No special requirements

"Despite the public's obsession with crime, victimisation and criminal justice, despite the morbid fear that crime and victimisation arouses, despite the endless volumes written to account for offending, victimisation and criminal justice processing, gender, the most powerful social factor of all has been virtually ignored by criminologists." (Leonard, 1982). Women are one of the fastest growing groups being incarcerated, they are more likely than men to be victims of certain types of crime (i.e. domestic and sexual violence) and men have traditionally (although now being debated) been more likely to perpetrate violent crime. It is critically important that the issue of how gender ,femininity, masculinity, and intersections with other statuses, shapes crime, victimisation and our responses to both. Drawing on national and international contexts, this subject explores, and seeks to theoretically explain, the persistent and profound differences between men and women in crime rates and patterns, victimization, and criminal justice system experiences and responses. The subject will also consider intersections between gender, Indigeneity, social class and sexual orientation.

• Invigilated Exam (45%)
• Major Essay (35%)
• Online Quiz (20%)

Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.