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Melissa Bernaudo
CRJ 313 Term Paper

Women are not more deviant than men; they simply commit different crimes and are evaluated on the same set of sociological theories which were originally developed by men to account for male behavioral patterns. Throughout the history of the criminal justice system, numerous theories have been developed in an effort to explain and possibly even rationalize those actions which society has deemed to be criminal behavior. However, these vast and complicated theories have all but completely neglected the area of female criminality. Of the few male criminologists who have studied female offenders in depth, these men have tended to describe female lawbreakers as immoral, corrupt, hysterical, manipulative and devious (Rafler, 2000:70). Female criminals have long been viewed as having a biological and/or psychological defect whereas the male dominated theories of criminology attribute everything from lack of "proper" attention, poor social......

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