Testing the Nexus: Crime, Gender, and Unemployment

Naffine, Ngaire; Gale, Fay

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047812

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“…This alternative position is consistent with tests of traditional criminological theories showing more similarities than differences in causes of female and male crime (Broidy & Agnew, 1997;Heimer, 1996;Leiber, Farnworth, Jamieson, & Nalla, 1994;Liu & Kaplan, 1999;Piquero, Gover, MacDonald, & Piquero, 2005;Smith & Paternoster, 1987). The position is also supported by research demonstrating that male and female crime rates are similarly impacted by societal, economic, and legal factors (Boritch & Hagan, 1990;Kruttschnitt, 1994;Naffine & Gale, 1989;Steffensmeier & Allan, 1988. In addition, the expectation of similar effects across gender is also consistent with most extant literature on gender-disaggregated homicide rates.…”

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“…This position also has been supported by several empirical tests of traditional criminological theories which repeatedly have found that traditional criminological theories work about equally well in explaining male and female offending (see Steffensmeier & Allan, 1996, for a review). In addition, there is strong evidence that male and female rates of offending are similarly affected by large-scale social, economic, and legal factors (Boritch & Hagan, 1990;Kruttschnitt, 1994;Naffine & Gale, 1989;Steffensmeier & Allan, 1988. The present research tested the following hypothesis:…”

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Structural correlates of female homicide: A cross-national analysis

Agha¹

2009

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Section: Gender-similarity In Effects Of Development/modernization Ansupporting

confidence: 82%

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Structural correlates of female homicide: A cross-national analysis

Agha¹

2009

Journal of Criminal Justice

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“…Scholars have further noticed a tendency in criminological theorizing to generalize findings from male-only samples (Fontaine et al, 2009;Naffine & Gale, 1989;Simpson et al, 2008). Feminist criminologists have also pointed to the blind spots in traditional theorizing and to how women could have been included (Chesney-Lind & Chagnon, 2016;Cook, 2016).…”

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Women in the Malestream Study of Crime: Exploring Three Swedish Journals throughout the Last Century

Camenius

Sandman

2021

Women & Criminal Justice

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The present article seeks to add further empirical nuance and specification to ongoing debates on the androcentric biases of historical and present research on crime. Using a mixed-methods design, it examines gender differences in theorizing and how women are represented in Swedish crime-related research between 1920 and 2015. On the one hand, the quantitative analysis reveals that explanations and proposed solutions to crime are more gender-neutral than previous research tends to suggest. On the other hand, the qualitative analysis uncovers how women are rendered visible almost exclusively in discussions on crime that concern issues linked to the body, sex and sexuality, or victimhood and vulnerability. Generally, in the Swedish context, characterized by the establishment of a strong welfare state, women and women's criminality have primarily been given relevance in the context of larger socio-economic problems and/or reforms.

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“…However, most of this community anxiety has dwelt almost exclusively on the young unemployed male. Teenage women have rarely featured in debates around youth unemployment, both in the academic literature (Alder 1986;Naffine and Gale 1989) and in the popular press. Instead, teenage women have usually appeared on an agenda dominated by issues of sexual morality; either they were drifting into prostitution (White 1990) or they were abusing the Supporting Parents' Benefit.…”

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‘Music While You Work’: Teenage Women in the Australian Labour Market, 1947 to 1992

Watson¹

1994

Aust J Social Issues

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Teenage women have been particularly disadvantaged by the collapse of the youth labour market over the last 20 years. This article outlines the dimension of that problem, comparing the position young women held in the teenage labour market in the late 1940s with their position today. While the 1950s and 1960s saw growth in some areas of paid work for teenage women, the 1970s marked a watershed. With the major exception of saleswork in the retail industry and clerical work in banking, teenage women saw their place in the labour market dramatically shrink during that decade. Nearly 30,000 full‐time jobs disappeared during the 1970s, to be replaced by nearly the same number of part‐time jobs. The 1980s has seen these developments reach crisis proportions. In the late 1980s, nearly 40,000 clerical jobs were lost to teenage women, and again the only significant employment growth was in casualised service sector jobs, such as cashiers and sales workers. This article concludes by exploring the structural reasons behind these dramatic long‐term changes.

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Testing the Nexus: Crime, Gender, and Unemployment

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Structural correlates of female homicide: A cross-national analysis

Structural correlates of female homicide: A cross-national analysis

Women in the Malestream Study of Crime: Exploring Three Swedish Journals throughout the Last Century

‘Music While You Work’: Teenage Women in the Australian Labour Market, 1947 to 1992

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