...Female offenders and their experience of criminal justice Before I choose to reply to this exact question of my essay questions I googled “Female offenders”, and I am honestly going to admit that as soon as I saw the search results I knew this is what I want to write about. The reason for this is because the first five articles that came up were not just about female offenders, they were all about black female offenders. You see, I think this is a pretty clear picture of the face that our stereotype criminal is black, either it is a woman or a man. In this essay I will look at how women experience criminal justice today, and despite the fact that google is trying to make it look like all offenders are black, I will include all nationalities. And then I will discuss what can and what needs to be changed for the criminal system to be better and more functional. A particular issue that I am going to have a further look at is if and possibly why women from suburban societies are treated differently in criminal settings than women from lower social rankings, e.g. homeless or prostitutes. The biggest question right now is, how does the justice system treat females? Obviously they are treated different than men because males are considered to stand more and to be built completely different physical and psychological, not to come across as a feminist or something even though that is pretty difficult in this case, but is that a fair game? I am aware that my task in this essay is to...
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...subject to both criminal punishment and civil liability. On the criminal side, states have a wide variety of criminal laws forbidding harassment in many forms, including general harassment crimes as well as specific forms of harassment, such as stalking and cyber stalking. In Belize we see a number of females being harassment by males, but have we ever looked back to see where it started and it has become trendy? If we look around we see many male youths struggling; we see many that because of their upbringing they don’t know how to carry themselves, their level of maturity is causing them to still be in child-zone and the way females carry themselves cause them to react the way they do. In Belize, we see a major problem in parenting for youths. Children are being raised by youths because they have working parent that have little time for them, also some only have one parent so that parent needs to work double to make up for the missing partner. This lifestyle cause males to not have the proper upbringing on how to carry themselves when they are among the opposite sex. In today’s society a male thinks that by whistling, calling unwanted names and comments they can get a female attention. In their mentality this is the proper way to communicate with the opposite sex. This is a key factor why it is good to have a good male role model or even a strict parent to raise our male on how to be respectable citizens. Secondly, it is scientifically proven that females mature at a faster...
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...Gender and Family Kimberly Francis CJS 240 August 24,2014 University of Phoenix Gender and Family In today's society, there are more and more juveniles that are doing delinquent crimes. People wander what causes so many juveniles to do the crimes that they do. Is it because of family, their gender or can it not getting the attention they need. People wander if the gender between the boys and girls has anything to do with the delinquency. Girls become delinquent for a vary of different reasons than boys. A girl can become delinquent based on the biological, social, and cultural differences between the girls and boys. The hormones onset and brain development, to the child's up bringing in the home, to the way a girl is expected to act in public opposed to how the boys are. Boys are taught to take care of themselves, to be more aggressive towards their goals and to act out more angry and retributive fashion than girls do. Boys are expected to mature faster than girls and are mainly raised by parents that they are to take care of the home. Does families have anything to do with delinquency? Researchers shows that family structures plays a huge part in the characteristics of juvenile delinquencies. In a family, the parents are separated there are less supervision on the children when growing up. Only one parent is present, that parent is doing all the work to provide the household with the income that is needed to take care of the home. The parents usually doesn't know...
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...Family and Gender CJS/230 Gender and Family CJS/240 Tiffiny West September 8, 2013 Nicole James Today the traditional family of two parents with the father working to provide and the mother at home caring for the children is occurring less often. Women and working more and spending less time with their children whereas men seem to be increasing the time they spend with their children. More children are also living with only one parent rather than two. Siegel & Welsh (2005) states that “as many as 40 percent of White children and 75 percent of African-American children will experience parental separation or divorce before they reach age sixteen…” (p. 157). Changes or disruption in the family unit has the potential to have a lasting effect on children. Primarily, children learn values and attitudes which guide their actions from their family unit. Many experts believe that a broken home can determine a child’s law abiding behavior. Several studies show that children who have been through family breakups are more prone to delinquency and hyperactivity. Blended families, or step-parent families, are occurring more often yet are less stable than biological families. Sociologist Sara McLanahan found that children who live with both biological parents do better than children who are raised without their biological father. These children are less likely to find and keep a job, finish high...
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...as how crimes are actually recorded and the idea that males do commit more crimes that females and the male stream society that we are in. It may be believed that women commit less crime due to the socialization they received throughout their life and the social control they receive as adults. During the socialisation process it can be seen that girls are socialised differently to boys. This idea was supported by Walurm who recorder conversations in a maternity ward. Baby girls were comforted when they cried and described as sweet, whereas boys were expected to be noisy and tough. Similarly, Statham found that parents find it virtually impossible to be non sexist in child rearing. Toy shops aimed weapons for boys and domestic toys such as babies and cooking equipment at girls. This could therefore explain why men are more likely to be involved in crimes involving physical violence or possession of an offensive weapon. Additionally, Parsons believed that because child-rearing is primarily carried out by mothers, with fathers potentially being absent or having little influence in the child's life, girls have an advantage in their socialisation as they have a clear role model to follow that emphasizes caring and support compared to boys who often lack a male role model. This theory was supported by Farrington and Painter's longitudinal study of female offenders. They found that female offenders were much more likely to have had harsh or erratic parenting and to have had little...
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...The social and economic status of a person is determined by several things. How wealthy, how powerful, and how prestige a person is can all influence the social status of a person. Economic status of a person can be influenced by how educated that person is, what their occupation is, and what their income is. Person A, a female and a CEO of a large trading company, would be perceived as having high social and economic status. She is responsible for making important decisions regarding the company that could result in loss or gain. It is not often that a female is the CEO of a large financial trading business, thus Person A is perceived as being powerful, prestigious, and well educated. She leads a company; whose members respect her and her decisions concerning assets and actions of the company. Having resided in six countries, she is portrayed as being social and adaptable. To have been able to live in different countries, she needed to know how to socialize and communicate with diverse people accordingly....
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...‘Crime is an intentional act or omission in violation of criminal law committed without defense or justification’. Mowrer has defined crime as an anti social act. The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘it is an action which constitutes a serious offence against an individual or the State and is punishable by law. Cause of Crime against Women (1) Situational Cause: The criminal are always active around such places. The crime is committed because of neither of the victim’s behavior nor of the offender’s psychopathological personality, but rather, because of the chance factor like working women or college girl living alone away from home, women coming alone from their working place or parties at late night. Conflict over money matters, ill treatment of husband’s parent may provoke the husband to assault his wife or man employer taking advantage of his female employee finding her alone in his office which creates such situations. (2) Man’s Supremacy: Violence against women is an outcome of the social structure and ideology of gender domination. Man always keeps his supremacy over his wife and other female members of his families. (3) Effect of moves, cheap literature: Kidnapping, violent action, bad wording, love seances cause the spoilage the life of young generation. People of criminal nature copy those seances and try to apply in real life. Easily available cheap literature, moves have prepared a big force of criminals. Legal provisions for Crime Against women in India The...
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...Stereotypes influence the processing of information, introduce prejudice into the legal system and form impressions of defendants in criminal cases; which may contradict a fair trial (MacLin & Herrera, 2006). They are perceptual representations that are perceived for members of a group and include the evaluation of that particular group e.g. their behavior and attributes (MacLin & Herrera, 2006). Recognising stereotypes and understanding how they create bias, has significant effects in the criminal justice system. It is desired to maximize the amount of correct decisions jurors render, For this reason, stereotyping is important to study in a jury setting. It is also imperative to study defendant gender and crime type, as a relationship between the two may influence jurors’ verdict decisions. Gordon, Bindrim, McNicholas and Walden (1988) conducted a study to determine the effect of defendant race and type of crime on juror verdicts. The independent variable was the type of crime (burglary or embezzlement) and defendant race (black or white), while the dependent variable was the recommended jail sentence. Crime descriptions that varied in crime type and defendant race where given to an equal number of black and white students to assess. Based on this, participants determined the defendant’s jail sentence and bail amount. The severity of the crime and the probability of the defendant repeating the crime were also scaled. The studies hypothesis was supported as the white...
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...Running head: FEMALE SEX 1 Female Sex Offenders FEMALE SEX 2 Without a doubt it is statistically proven that women commit fewer crimes as a whole than men. In 2010, there were one million five hundred thousand men incarcerated compare to the number of female offenders, which was one hundred thirteen thousand. When it comes to sex offenders we often think of the male gender than females. We see females as nonviolent nurtures rather than violent human beings who are capable of committing crimes of sexual nature. This false ideology is due to the lack of reporting of sexual offenses committed by females as well as clinicians and other agencies not recognizing the fact the term sexual offenders can be used for females as well as males. In the case study done by Stuckman-Johnson 28.5 percent of females reported to forcing men to partake in sexual intercourse and between the years of 1994 to 1998 there was a slight increase of seven percent that were reported. Of that 28 percent one to seven percent admitted to using physical force to restrain their victims, thirty-six percent admitted to getting their victims intoxicated before engaging in sexual acts, and another nine percent admitted to using a weapon. As of 2006, it was reported that female sex offenders that were convicted for rape made up for 3 percent of the population and other sexual offense were 5 percent of the population. Throughout the years researchers directed...
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...There are distinctive differences between both biological sexes in violence. Wright et.al.( 2008) mentions in the reading that throughout the world and literature there is a general understanding that males are more aggressive and violent than females. It’s no surprise then that males commit more violent crimes (i.e. murder, rape, robbery, etc...) than females (Wright et.al. 2008). As males are more violent they also makeup 85% of the criminal justice systems arrests (Wright et.al. 2008). Males have a higher propensity to violence overall along with having violent dreams and affect to violent images (Wright, 2015). One basic reason for this difference in violence between the two biological sexes is the differences in socialization. Everything...
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...Female correctional facilities are treating deviant women as insane, and over-prescribing psychiatric drugs on inmates, using medication as a solution to every problem and also to quiet them down. This practice violates their human writes, not to mention the dreadful side-effects of these drugs, that cause more harm than good. Angela makes an important statement about how women who broke the law are treated as insane, and men are treated as criminal. “That is, deviant men have been constructed to as a criminal. While deviant women have been constructed as insane. Regimes that reflect this assumption continued to inform the women's prison. Psychiatric drugs continued to be distributed far more extensively to imprisoned women that to their male...
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...Paul Bass D . EID: pdb586 Writing Assignment Final Draft Due Date: Mar 5, 2014 by 12am Housewife vs. Courtesan in India In the early 20th century, life as a woman in Indianociety S (and in the rest of the world at the time) was not glamorous. The common consensus was that a woman’s natural place was to be within the domicile and that women held less power than men, despite all their contributions to the family. “In the average Indian family the strictest domestic economy is the rule of life, and the household work is done by the women of the household” (Temple 64). It was a woman’s job to keep the household in order, raise the children, and keep her husband satisfied. “vulnerable in a maledominated world”, marriage was considered an impending fate for women as India’s workforce was primarily male dominated omen , w were dependent on men for financial support (Nijhawan 103). Getting married was also a must for women and was seen as the only ‘respectable’ course of action in a womans life. Widows in Indian society were treated poorly and had a low social standing, even though they had followed all respectable social norms “How much the women dread widowhood is exhibited to the full in the fact that to call a woman a widow is to offer her a dire insult” (Temple 65). The courtesans of the time seemed to live outside of these sociocultural norms. Analysis of ...
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...essay through narratives of incidents in his life. He explains one encounter with a young white women, “on a deserted street, in an impoverished section of Chicago” (556). She glances back at him and disappears off into the dark. In paragraph two, Staples understands her thoughts of him being a mugger, a rapist, or even a murderer; but “her flight” made him feel “like an accomplice tyranny” (556). It also made him feel like he was “indistinguishable from the muggers,” and laid on him and “unnerving gulf between nighttime pedestrians—particularly women” and himself (556). This confrontation not only shows how a stereotype affected the thoughts of a female walking at night, but how it negatively touched a black male. Staples gives example after example showing a bigoted label he obtains due to his race and sex. Not only females, but males of the same race show a sign of uneasiness and discomfort when confronted by black males in insecure and dangerous areas. In his essay he mentions Norman Podhoretz, the writer of, “My Negro Problem—And Ours.” Podhoretz recalls in his essay that he grew up in...
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...cultures, beliefs, behaviors and family history. As student’s I believe we all have something new to offer a classroom environment. Improvement is the key subject in collaborating as a group or team. • How might factors such as diversity, attitude, learning, and work styles affect collaboration? Some aspects in diversity that may affect collaboration are language barriers. Some people that do not speak the English language and write it as well as others might feel intimated. Being multicultural is one that might cause others to look at a person with a judgmental view. Even though we should not react in a racial way, there are still a lot of people that discriminate due to their race, sexual preferences, gender and even height. As females and males I believe we all can do what it takes to accomplish the task given to us. I believe...
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...gaze,” Travis is presented as the dominant male while most female characters are treated and seen as objects of sex and desire—cheapened, eroticized, submissive—though he one female, Betsy, is treated and seen with reverent affection. In addition,...
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