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As in other areas of sociology, criminological studies have traditionally ignored half the population.
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INTRODUCTION As in other areas of sociology, criminological studies have traditionally ignored half the population. An example of this is the account of social order and anomie. Merton (1930) argued that American society encouraged people to seek 'money success', and as the social structure was unable to provide unlimited opportunities for all, this resulted in a 'strain to anomie', which lead to different types of deviance. Therefore it has been argued by various sociologists that women should figure more prominently in various categories of deviance including crime. Female criminology is an issue, which has been neglected for many years by sociologists and criminologists. The reason as to why there seems to be low crime rate for women is explained by Pollok (1950), his work claims that the official statistics for woman are highly misleading and hide the true extent of female crime, much of which, he says, goes unreported. Pollock...
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