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GENDER AND CRIME
CJMCRIMfflALJUSTICElWrTEESGENDER AND CRIMEM asculinity, femininity andcriminologyAs many criminologists have observed,thinking about GENDER is inextricablylinked with thinking about CRIME . TimNewburn and I observed recently, "themost significant fact about CRIME is that itis almost always committed by men."(1994:1) Compared to their proportion inthe population, women are under-represented amongst those cautioned orfound guilty for indictable offences inEngland and Wales and constitute a smallminority of the prison population. Whengender is discussed in criminology orcriminal justice matters at all, ittraditionally highlights the plight of"The most significant factabout CRIME is that it is almostalways committed by men.
criminology It seems to me that thinking about both masculinity and femininity, and its relations to theorising and to practice in criminal justice provides a rich, complex and dynamic way of unpicking our conventional approaches to crime. It is a route to thinking structurally; dominance and hierarchies of power exist, and are
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