Impact of Gender on Offending, Victimization, and Treatment in the Criminal Justice Process in England and Wales

THINKING ABOUT
CRIME

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Offence or the crime are synonym which means breaking of the law. It is the serious
violation of the human laws. It is an illegal or unlawful act where the individual is punished for
the wrong doing by the judicial system of the country. There is no universally accepted definition
of crime but different statute have different meaning for the certain purpose (Steiker and Steiker,
2019). One of the proposed meaning of crime is an act which harmful in nature not only to
individual buy also to the whole of the community or state. This essay report shall cover the
impact of gender on offending, victimisation and treatment in the criminal justice process in
England and Wales.
MAIN BODY
Criminal justice can be referred to as the process which involves the serious of steps
which begins with criminal investigation and end with releasing the convicted person from the
correctional supervision. There are mainly five stages involved in the criminal justice system
which includes investigation, arrest, pre trial activities, trial, sentence and corrections. Each stage
has different process and step in order to ensure that every person's right to due process is met
effectively.
Gender has been a keen issue where the sex difference is also found in the criminal
justice system, especially in decision making. It is found that gender differences are present in
the criminal justice system where woman are favoured more than man. There is gender
inequality found in every aspect of criminal justice, whether it is relating to crime or punishment.
It is often found that women relates as victims of the crime in the criminal justice system
but in recent trends it is seen that the number of women suspects or accused has grown globally
and at a faster rate than male population in the recent years (Porto, 2017). It has been a
stereotype that women shall be regarded as the victims only and men are accused for the crimes.
There are laws, institutions and policies which are articulations of gender inequality,
norms, values and stereotype which are prevalent in societies and cultures. The laws are made by
victimising the women and for the protection of women only. Rather they must be enacted on the
basis of equality and must be person centric and not gender centric. From the offender's
perspective, the neglect of gender is disconcerting as there is clear view that women who enter
the criminal justice system comes with different experience and background as compared to the