Duration: 3:05 minutes
Crime statistics – from whatever society and time period – tell us that criminal behaviour is overwhelmingly a male phenomenon. One explanation for this, introduced in this podcast, is Gender Role theory.
This theory involves a number of concepts (such as primary and secondary socialisation, identity formation, masculinity and femininity) that can be linked synoptically to the AS Specification.
Key concepts covered in this podcast:
- Gender and crime
- Role theory
- Dramaturgical analogy
- Identity
- Learned social roles
- Primary socialisation
- Secondary socialisation
- Differential Association
- Informal social controls
- Risk
- Positive and negative sanctions
- Masculine identity
- Feminine identity
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