Deck 11: Females and Delinquency

Question 1

Applying to female juvenile offenders the same disciplinary techniques used to treat male offenders is problematic because

A) women should be treated more leniently
B) there may be very different reasons for why women commit crimes
C) statistics are not generally available on female offenders
D) female offenders are not that big of a problem

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The behavioral, physical, and psychological traits that are typically attributed to either a man or woman describe a person's __________.

A) gender
B) sex
C) chemistry
D) genetics

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who argues in her book, The Beauty Myth, that women are taught to measure their worth in terms of physical appearance?

A) Carol Gilligan
B) Kalpana Krishnamurthy
C) Naomi Wolf
D) Lara Croft

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Carol Gilligan argues that many of the characteristics associated with gender can be explained through __________.

A) biology
B) nursery school
C) chemistry
D) socialization

Question 5

Which of the following is not a perspective, or version, of feminist theory?

A) Liberal feminism
B) Island feminism
C) Marxist feminism
D) Radical feminism

Question 6

Which feminist theory believes that discrimination against women is not institutionalized or systemic?

A) Liberal
B) Phenomenological
C) Socialist
D) Radical

Question 7

Phenomenological feminism examines

A) the historical trends in woman's suffrage
B) discriminatory treatment of female delinquents by the juvenile justice system
C)the role of capitalism in the formation of a chauvinistic society
D) the lack of women's access to political power

Question 8

Feminists drew much inspiration from __________.

A) World War I
B) World War II
C) the Great Depression.
D) the Civil Rights Movement

Question 9

The tendency for justice officials to give lighter sentences to girls is sometimes referred to as the

A) chivalry hypothesis
B) evil-woman hypothesis
C) consideration theory
D) leniency theory

Question 10

Radical feminists argue against a male-dominated society, also known as a

A) matriarchal society
B) patriarchal society
C) boy's club
D) closed system

Question 11

According to the 2018 Uniform Crime Reports, which of the following categories of offenses were most common in females under the age of eighteen?

A) Homicides
B) Robbery
C) Status offenses
D) Prostitution

Question 12

For a long time in history, women were considered to be _______of men.

Question 13

What period saw the height of the second wave of the feminist movement?

Question 14

What is the doctrine that advocates equality in the social, economic, and political treatment of women in society?

Question 15

Freda Adler argued that the rise in female crime was, at least in part, attributable to __________.

Question 16

Feminists drew much inspiration from the __________ movement.

Question 17

One aspect of sexual freedom over which feminists do not always agree is __________.

Question 18

Radical feminists argue against a male-dominated society, also known as a ______ society.

Question 19

The tendency for justice officials to give lighter sentences to girls is sometimes referred to as the __________ hypothesis.

Question 20

It is often difficult to determine whether changes in female delinquency are due to underlying behavior or to ________________.

Question 21

Some delinquency experts suggest that increased crime rates for girls can be explained by __________ theories.

Question 22

The Criminality of Women, a book that put forth the idea that women are inherently deceitful and devious, was written by __________.

Question 23

Who classified female offenders as a throwback to a primitive type of human in the book, The Female Offender?

Question 24

The 1960s and 1970s is considered the second wave of the feminist movement.

Question 25

For a long in history, women were considered to be religious leaders.

Question 26

According to the 2018 Uniform Crime Reports, homicides were most common in females under the age of eighteen.

Question 27

One of the problems with measuring female delinquency patterns is that there are methodological changes in the way crimes are defined and analyzed.

Question 28

The evil woman hypothesis is the tendency for justice officials to give lighter sentences to girls.

Question 29

Radical feminists argue against a male-dominated society, also known as a matriarchal society.

Question 30

In his book, The Unadjusted Girl, W.I. Thomas wrote about female delinquency in terms of prostitution.

Question 31

Freda Adler argued that the rise in female crime was, at least in part, attributable to the women's liberation movement.

Question 32

The liberal feminist theory argues that discrimination against women is not institutionalized or systemic.

Question 33

A general feminist idea would be that reproduction is not an individual's choice.

Question 34

According to feminist theory, gender, along with race, has not actually been shown to affect decision-making by officials in the juvenile justice system.