1. And all that bloke stuff!
Gender & Crime
And all that bloke stuff!

2. My god can you remember how to define deviance?
Write a paragraph about deviance utilising these words:
Downes & Rock Culturally determined
Relative Homosexuality

3. Difference between men & women
Examine this diagram carefully sociologically what can we say about this diagram. Can we link this to common cultural assumptions of why people commit crime?

4. Normative masculinity
Bob Connell (1995) an Australian sociologist argued that there were a number of different masculinities. These change over time. Messerschmidt developed this idea,

5. Back to Gender & Crime: specifically men..masculinity & crime
Think about your synoptic links here we must address Methodology: male science and statistical analysis
Person to remember here is James W. Messerschmidt
Messerschmidt
Examines why different groups of males lean to different types of crime in an attempt to become masculine

6. Masculinity Accomodating Masculinity
School teaches young middle class men subserviance to school teachers. They rebel aaginst this outside school and turn to minor thefts, vandalism etc
Oppositional masculinity
White working class boys have less chance of academic success so construct their masculinity around aggresssion. They are tough and try to oppose their teachers

7. Masculinity
Lower working class ethnic minority boys have even less chance of success they od not expect to be able to have a job that supports a family. They use violence to express their masculinity. They commit property crime which they see will offer them the chance of material success.

8. Katz (1988)
Criminology has ignored the pleasure of crime this can be placed within the context of masculinity .
Identify 3 features that this may give men

9. Katz
Doing eveil is motivated by the quest for a ‘moral self-transcendence’ in the face of boredom. Different crimes provide different thrills.
List three
By understanding emotional thrills that lead to transgression we can understand why males commit crime.
Katz was influenced by Matza

10. Matza (1964)