SOC362H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: List Of Belgrade Neighbourhoods And Suburbs, Conspicuous Consumption, Masculinity
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Up it up: gender and the accomplishment of street robbery. criminology 36(1):37-66. Study compares women"s and men"s accounts of why they commit robbery how gender organizes act of crime examine women participation in male crimes. Robbery and rape are the most gender differentiated crimes in the us. 1980"s research on gender shaping social structure so gender is a reproduction and indication of gendered social hierarchies. Because violence falls out of femininity as a norm, violence not accepted in women. Robbery is the epitome of crime for men and masculine identity ideal opportunity to show maleness and toughness so robbery is rational resource for doing gender. Robbery is racialized seen more in african american communities of low class. Women"s lack of involvement because it is a masculine accomplishment doing gender. Urban african american females involved in street crimes more than other women.
