Feminist criminologists wrestle with two major concerns: (1) the generalizability problem (2) the gender ratio problem. Compare and contrast these.
What will be an ideal response?
The generalizability problem has been defined as “the quest to find theories that account equally for male and female offending.” Many feminist criminologists have concluded that male-centered theories have limited applicability to females because they focus on male frustration in their efforts to obtain success goals (status, resources) and ignore female relationship goals (marriage, family; Leonard, 1995). Some feminist scholars believe that no feminist-specific general theory is possible and that they must be content to focus on crime-specific “mini-theories.”
The gender ratio problem asks, “What explains the universal fact that women are far less likely than men to involve themselves in criminal activity?” Eileen Leonard contends that the fact of huge gender differences in criminal behavior is not in dispute by feminists or anyone else: “Women have had lower rates of crime in all nations, in all communities within nations, for all age groups, for all periods in recorded history, and for practically all crimes.
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