Gender and Crime - Rising Female Criminality | A Level Sociology

welcome to this tutor to you sociology topic video on gender and crime focusing on reasons for Rising female criminality in recent years female criminality has remained steady but over the past 50 years it has increased significantly and sociologists look for changes in wider Society to explain why this has occurred according to the ministry of

Justice's Research into women in crime only 15% of arrests that are made are of women but other details from this report look to support explanations of rising female criminality that are offered by sociologists of those imp prison in 2017 69% of women had a history of mental health issues at one point and

women in prison are also more likely to self harm in comparison to males whilst only 15% of arrests are female women constitute 26% of defendants and 27% of convictions in court cases while 10% of males convicted face custodial sentences the rate is only 2% for females a clear difference between genders in the severity of

offenses and the rates of imprisonment in this video we'll apply some of the theor surrounding gender and criminality to explain these statistics the first Theory we can apply is that of carin's class and gender deals now Carin argued that women turns a crime due to their rejection of of the class and gender deals that Society

offers them while this theory is based upon the control of women in society as those controls have reduced over time it has led to increased rejection of these deals and further evidence for this can be applied to carin's Deals through examining the histories of women in prison with more females being imprisoned with existing alcohol and