Explain one of the problems with explanations of crime that focuses on the generic aspects of gender

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

• They cannot account for the gender-rational offending or the disproportionate degree to which men and women are involved in crime.
• Much of this research assumes that similar variables or constructs have the same meaning for males and females.
• Recent work reveals that these factors have different influences with and across gender.
• As a result of the gendered nature of women's and men's lives, factors often take on different meanings and have different consequences for males and females.
• One can conclude that some of the concepts found in presumably gender-neutral theories may be useful for understanding women's offending—for example, poverty and lack of opportunity.
• Gendered theories that take gender and gender stratification into consideration are preferable to those approaches that assume measure or constructs are gender neutral.