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In what ways, if any, do female offenders warrant special consideration by the Criminal Justice System.
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SUBJECT : PRISONS AND SOCIETY PART 2 YEAR 3 In what ways, if any, do female offenders warrant special consideration by the Criminal Justice System. Historically female criminality has been subject to stereotyping by the Criminal Justice System (CJS), in that assumptions of female behaviour influence the decisions made by the individual stages of the CJS. Women are observed to be pure, passive and submissive, but also deceptive, emotional and jealous (Morris 1987). Heidensohn (1989) argues that recorded crime is overwhelmingly linked to sex, in that crimes are mainly committed by young male adults. Farrington 1981 in Morris 1987) using Home Office statistics estimated that 12% of men and only 2% of women were likely to be convicted of an offence by the age of seventeen. It was also calculated that 44% of men and only15% of women were likely to be convicted of offences during their lives (Farrington 1981 cited in Morris 1987)....
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