Women And Crime Study Guide Rated A+

gendered crime: {Ans: focuses on situational contexts and qualities of criminal activity -environments favorable to and environments that impede female offending -fluidity of gender identities -overlap in motivation -differences in commission of crime}criminal careers: are there differences in careers for genders? {Ans: -similar patterns w/ males however less prevalent than men as high rate offenders -age of onset: growing evidence for adult onset for females}In the Caputo and King study on shoplifting, the women worked with two criminally involved groups. Who are the two groups and what roles do they play in the success of the women who commit these crimes? {Ans: 1. illegal taxi drivers (hacks): take women from community to place where she is going to shoplift then return her to her customers... minimizes risk bc she doesn't have to take public transportation... doesn't get mad that he takes 50% bc she usually think there's so sort of relationship 2. customers: friends, strangers, social acquaintances, businesses... they develop a base, sometimes a niche}Generalizabilty cont. + approaches {Ans: -can we use same theories to explain male and female offending? -these scholars wanted to know if the same processes are in place to explain intragender differences