Women, Crime, and Opportunity on Term Paper

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Women's crimes like shoplifting may thus be more individualized, garner less media attention because of their less violent and wide-spread nature, and while women may commit crimes such as abusing drugs, these crimes may not provide women with connections to profiting off of crime, because of a lack of social opportunities within criminal organizations.

One reason Curran and Renzetti's analysis is particularly interesting today is that juvenile delinquency amongst females is on the rise, as a kind of mirror-image of the ways that women have become more integrated into legitimate professional activities and the fact that aggression in women is now more acceptable in mainstream society.
On one hand, traditional crime organizations, at least as they are portrayed in the contemporary media, have only allowed women to take subsidiary roles. However, as society changes and presents more opportunities and greater acceptance within the criminal subculture of female, professional criminals, the face of crime may change and include more female 'faces' as part of its guise.

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Curran, Daniel J. Claire M. Renzetti. (2002) Theories of Crime. New York:….....

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