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10 Crim. Just. & Behavior 3 (1983)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv10 and id is 1 raw text is: A CONSIDERATION OF SEX ROLES AND MOTIVATIONS FOR CRIME JOAN McCORD Drexel University LAURA OTTEN LaSalle College Circumstantial evidence seems to indict the women's movement for contributing to an increase in crime. This article reports a study designed to assess that putative relationship. Responses to questionnaires measured aggressiveness, criminal behavior, and attitudes toward sex roles. Males showed greater aggression and more criminality, while females concurred with more of the profeminist judgments. Aggressiveness was significantly correlated with criminality among both males and females. Most importantly, the data lend no support to a view that profeminist attitudes contribute to criminality. For each sex, attitudes toward women's rights and criminality were unrelated. S ex roles have long been linked with explanations for crime. More than a century ago, on noticing that males were four times as likely as females to be arrested, Quetelet (1842/1969) provided the explanation that females receive more careful supervision than males, thus giving them fewer opportunities for crime. Lombroso-Ferrero (1911/1972) attributed some female crimes to absence of maternal sentiment and others to feminine passions. Pollak (1950) continued this train of thought in offering the explanation that women engaged in criminal activity as an act Authors' Note: We would like to thank Adam Eisen for his cogent suggestions and assistance in carrying out this research. CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 10 No. 1, March 1983 3-12 @ 1983 American Association of Correctional Psychologists 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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