Gender and Crime - Reasons for Male Criminality | A Level Sociology

welcome to this tutor to you sociology topic video on gender and crime looking at the reasons for male criminality according to the most recent crime survey of england and wales males are more likely to commit most forms of crime with four out of five crimes being committed by a male sociologists have investigated this

phenomenon in great detail with accusations of sociology and criminology were for a long time mail stream that is male researchers researching male crime there are lots of different theoretical approaches that can be used when explaining the higher rates of offending for males in this video we're going to look at how to apply these ideas

explaining how a concept explains the higher level of criminality for males first of all we can look at the socialization of males as being a cause of the high rate of offending traditional functions theories such as past and sex role theory suggests that the met that males are less adequately socialized than females

now this is based upon the assumption that fathers take on the instrumental role in the family having limited involvement with child care and so boys are less adequately socialized into male roles than girls are into female roles this leads to boys seeking out other boys and can lead to socialization into subcultural norms and values

this traditional functionalist idea was adopted by mauryan and you write when looking at the underclass in society suggesting that most crime is the result of idle young males that lack adequate socialization as they're part of a lone pair and family the final application of socialization can be seen in messerschmitt's idea of hegemonic masculinity