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Double deviance theory states, "women are treated more harshly [than men] by the criminal justice system... because they are guilty of being doubly deviant. They have deviated from accepted social norms by breaking the law and deviated from gender norms which state how woman should behave."
A carceral feminist is a feminist that relies on the criminal justice system to address social problems and gender inequalities, such as violence against women and sentencing for sexual offenders. Carceral feminists, mainly consisting of radical, liberal, and/or white feminists, believe that a significant impact can be made on violence against ...
Ruth Shonle Cavan (August 28, 1896 [1] – August 25, 1993 [2]) was an American sociologist based at the University of Chicago. She specialized in deviance and criminology and was a leader of the Chicago school of sociology.
In her first article, The deviance of women: A critique and an enquiry in the British Journal of Sociology, she questioned why the low level of recorded crime by females had been largely ignored or distorted in criminological research. In it, she advocated an intensive programme of studies to analyse the logistics of the sex-crime ratio versus ...
Welcome to So Mini Ways, Yahoo Life's parenting series on the joys and challenges of child-rearing.. When Joan Lunden started her now-legendary stint as a Good Morning America co-anchor, she ...
Women's victimization has both direct and indirect effects that relate to women's criminal behavior. [7] Among the many traumas female offenders experience in a lifetime, child abuse and partner abuse have well-documented associations with female criminal behavior.
Carol Christine Smart [1] CBE (born 20 December 1948 [2]) is a feminist sociologist and academic at the University of Manchester. [3] [4] She has also conducted research about divorce and children of divorced couples.
Stuart Henry is professor emeritus, Criminal justice and former director of the School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University (2006–17). [1] [2] He has also been visiting professor of criminology at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research from 2008 to 2013 and visiting research scholar in sociology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2017.