Gender & OffendingThe most consistent pattern in criminology, and the explanations offered for it.SociologyThe gap is large and durable; the explanation is not settled.The patternMen are the large majority of known offenders.The gap is widest for serious violence.It holds across countries and periods.Women's offending is more often property-related.Women are a small share of the prison population.Competing accountsDifferential socialisation and supervision.Control theory: less opportunity, more constraint.Chivalry thesis, weakly supported.Masculinity as accomplished through crime.Recording and charging practice differences.Pathways from victimisation to offending.Educational reference. The chivalry thesis has mixed support;sentencing differences vary by offence and jurisdiction.Gender & Offendinglearnposters.com
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What’s on the Gender & Offending poster

11 entries in 2 groups.

The gap is large and durable; the explanation is not settled.

Educational reference. The chivalry thesis has mixed support; sentencing differences vary by offence and jurisdiction.

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What’s on the Gender & Offending poster?
11 entries in 2 groups. The gap is large and durable; the explanation is not settled. The pattern: Men are the large majority of known offenders., The gap is widest for se…; Competing accounts: Differential socialisation and supervision., Control theory: less…. Educational reference. The chivalry thesis has mixed support; sentencing differences vary by offence and jurisdiction.
Who is the Gender & Offending poster for?
Gender & Offending belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning crime & deviance can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Gender & Offending poster?
When a theory of offending is built entirely from male samples. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Gender & Offending belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Gender & Offending?
Broken Windows, The Dark Figure of Crime and Defining Deviance sit alongside Gender & Offending in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Broken WindowsThe Dark Figure of CrimeDefining Deviance
Is the Gender & Offending poster free to download and print?
Yes. Gender & Offending downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Gender & Offending poster print at?
Gender & Offending is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Gender & Offending loses nothing.Printing guide

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