Crime Theories in the Past and the Role of Women in Crime

Women and Crime Essay
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Criminal theories in the past have downplayed the role of women in crime because they emphasized feminist criminology, which was designed to reduce gender inequalities, inequitable treatment of female offenders and victims, and emphasis on androcentric practices and policies within "gendered institutions." The feminist theory implies that crime was analyzed and understood based on men's values, priorities, and contributions to the criminal justice system while marginalizing women. Feminist thought held that gender and gender relations influenced social life and that males dominated the community's social, political, and economic issues. In this context, it can be derived that men's control over women reduced female deviance, offering an impetus for traditional crime theories to downplay female criminality and instead focus on male deviance (De-Coster, 2018). However, women must be central to scholarly inquiry, not peripheral, invisible, or appendages to thei...