Gender patterns in crime

The chivalry thesis

Evidence against the chivalry thesis

Bias against women, rather than in favour of them, in the criminal justice system.

Explaining female crime: Functionalist sex role theory

Heidensohn: patriarchal control

Carlen: class and gender deals

Adler: Liberation thesis.

Criticisms of the liberation thesis

Women and violent crime

A moral panic about girls

Gender and victimisation

Why men commit crime: Masculinity and crime, Messerschmidt

Criticisms of Messerschmidt

Winlow: postmodernity masculinity and crime