Women's Involvement In Criminology Research

Until the past few decades women’s involvement in crime was neglected in criminology research. As their involvement in crime and in criminology research has emerged, there is still limited research on violent female offenders. Most notably in criminology research are how women’s pathways to crime often differ in relation to men. While these pathways still possess similarities and differences to men, violent female offenders have traits specific to them. Race and class also contribute to women’s involvement in violent crime, similarly to how identities are shaped from these different concepts. This relationship gives an improved understanding of what to expect from a typical violent female offender. How women become involved in crime often

These traits include committing violent crimes with others (cite). For instance, many women commit violent crimes with an accomplish, in a gang, or with a male (cite). This shows how violent women is not typically an isolated occurrence. Violent women also typically commit violence without firearms and with weapons such as knife or blade (cite). These are usually one with threatening the victim. However, often time women will innate stabbing (cite). Another commonality among violent female offenders is, across the board, they often commit violent crimes in relation to sexual acts. For instance, many women will lead men to sexual encounters and then rob/murder/etc. without engaging in any sexual relation (cite). Moreover, these women still rarely commit the acts alone and have a “getaway” driver waiting

Although not all responses cause violent criminal acts from females, some can. For instance, women may also lack legitimate ways to gain economic access and involve themselves in sex work, and from what is known about female robbers, many will rob their clients to have economic gain (cite) (not sure this is going in the right direction. Maybe reword and look back at the lit) Maybe add a paragraph here about like what intersectional studies have found…like how they have found that race and class and clear indicators of . This brings more attention to class and idk if I’ll for sure have a factor for class. But I could discuss how these intersectional studies found both to be a factor and studies that accounted for more than one or more inequality factor also account for this? I could maybe focus more about what the findings of these articles found instead of just systems of oppression or maybe talk about system of oppression and then give examples from the