Feminism and Crime Causation

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Q: How useful are feminist perspectives for understanding crime causation? Use examples
from criminological literature to support your argument.
Introduction
Feminism is an ideology that is believed to have been prevalent for a very long time in
the course of gender justice. It started in the year 1848 and it has been perceive to be against the
wave of slavery and unjust treatment to women. The aim is to find out how feminist concept has
tried to find its way through the course of justice and how criminal law has been impacted by
feminist theories. General has always played a very important role in understanding the
psychology and role play of offenders who have caused crime (Modleski 2015 p. 61). Gender
cannot be isolated from criminal theories and their role for the criminal justice system gives
heavy emphasis on the role of theories pertaining to gender. Therefore this writing shall focus on
issues that are strictly related to the offence created by one important segment of the society that
is women and how those of senders and wrongdoers can be studied by putting them on the
brackets of feminist theory (Crenshaw 2018 p. 73).
Discussion
To begin with it seems like an of topic as to the relation that has to be established
between women and crying and therefore to begin with it is very essential to understand the
reason why feminism has been given the status within the society so that criminal system can be
evaluated identifying the psychology of women. Gender is something that humans are born with
whereas sex is what the society t gives us (Allen 2018 p. 86). There is a reason as to why Gender
and sex both play a very important role in understanding our criminal justice system and also in

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examining the purpose of these two terms in the society. The trait of understanding a masculine
personality pertains to man and it is believed that women who commit crime also have a
masculine side to themselves there by totally abolishing the thought that a feminine character can
commit crime. Be in the society or in the present the segregation has been based on the
characteristic differentiation of being masculine or being feminine. it has always believed that a
man who give South feminine wives will not be coming crime where as on the same stoke
women who committed crime with thoughts to have a masculine traits to themselves and it is
also believed that these female offenders be more like men and less like women (Price and
Shildrick 2017 p. 421).
The 20th as well as the 21st century 180 change in the way men and women were
perceived and how feminist could be he and ideology that can be given to both men and women
and that the concept of feminism has an incredible role to play both in society as well as in
politics (Matsuda 2017 p. 55). The social change that started to gather relevance around that time
was seen in gendered roles. Which time it started to be seen that many issues related to gender
justice started to crop up and that people started to also it quit criminal justice and gender justice
so that some parallel could be drawn as to why the role played by women should be given
Emphasis and importance (Bartlett 2018 p. 321). The 21st century broke the floodgates to the
recognition of rights of women and how women should be treated equally like men and they stay
there should be recognized in the society. The reason behind this Outlook because it is believed
that sex and gender play a very important role within the criminal justice framework and also in
the life of women. In the early days of research when the relation between crime and Society was
been established it was seen that women were absolutely not considered and they were not acted
in while understanding the relation between society and criminal justice (Rice 2016 p. 302). The