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Critical and Feminist theory

Critical and Feminist theory

Q Your textbook discusses how females enter “Gendered Pathways” into crime, and little research was done on those females who were educated, employed, and not repeat offenders – but still committed a crime. Please tell me your thoughts on how a female might end up enmeshed in the criminal world. Would it be the same pathway as a male? Explain/ justify your answer. How might sentencing be different for females vs. males? Do you agree that sentencing should be different? Why or why not? Explain/ justify your answer.

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1. A female might end up enmeshed in the criminal world as the path ways are different for male and females in several ways. They are different in nature. I have also seen that a smaller number of females often repeat their crime where the rate of repeated crimes is high for male. A female often cannot get the right way to vent out the aggression and criminal behavior can become the only way out. In most of the cases,