Gender Differences In Crime

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Diversity within a society is very important for the structure and stability of the people within it. Males and females are the same and different in many aspects of life; criminal delinquency and the choice that people choose to make will define their future that hasn’t been determined yet. Gender differences have various effects on the types of crime that happen; they are the most significant feature of recorded crimes. Differences within a person are clearly a reason for crime but there are also biological/social and socialization factors that choose to show why people make the choices that they do.

When Cesare Lombroso completed his studies, he then decided to extend his work on the criminality to females. Lombroso & Ferrero suggested that criminality is innate but there are very few “born …show more content…

When it comes to committing a crime men and women can think the same, but they have different thoughts and actions about actually planning the crime. Men and women are biologically and socially diverse. Women get depressed and reveal their feelings, their self esteem goes down and they rarely use force. When women choose to commit a crime, they don’t plan for anything big. Property crime and status offenses are two types of crime that women participate in doing. Women are closely protected by their family and friends. They have closer bonds with each of their relationships. As for men, they are more aggressive and take the pain they have to use it, to hurt others. Men want to be independent, they participate in deviant behavior with their friends, and their self esteem goes up. To reiterate, men and women are different but they also commit the same crime. Criminals choose to do things that they typically wouldn’t do because of the outside world pressuring them to do it; they sometimes pressure themselves into doing it for them, but in the end, it’s them that have to

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