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Race, Gender & Juvenile Justice’HNC Criminology Bridging Module
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'Race, Gender & Juvenile Justice' HNC Criminology Bridging Module By Gillian Dickinson 20/06/05 Contents Page Task 1 1. Introduction 3 1.1. 'Leniency' 3 1.2. Shoplifting Offences 4 1.3. Violent Offences 4 1.4. Drug Offences 5 2. Key Influences on Decision-Making 5 2.1. Sentencing 6 2.2. Offenders Background 6 Task 2 3. Criminological Theories 7 3.1. Recorded Crime 7 4. Chivalry Hypothesis 8 4.1. Control Theory 9 4.2. Sexual Violence and Social Control 9 5. Conclusion 10 6. Bibliography 11 Task 1 1. Introduction The Home Office Research Study '170', titled 'Understanding the sentencing of Women' by Hedderman and Dowds (in Hedderman and Gelsthorpe, 1997), contains two projects which attempt to address the lack of substantial research into the way women are sentenced. The predominant aim of the study- was to establish how magistrates set about taking account of the substantive differences in men's and women's lives and their perceptions of 'justice'. Part I examined statistical information on more than 13,000 male and...
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