Gender Inequality and Crime: A Socialist-Feminist Approach to Spouce Murder
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1991
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Thesis/Dissertation
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criminological theory, women's criminality, feminist theory, gender relations
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Sociology
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English
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103-397-480
(Last edited on
2003/12/02 04:01:42 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
The purpose of this study is to use a socialist-feminist approach to assess the impact gender inequality has on the likelihood of women killing their husbands or common-law husbands. State by state murder rates were compared. All the murders occurred in the United States during 1983. The Gender Equality Index is used to measure the attainment of women relative to men in the legal, economic, and political realms. The percent of population living in poverty and in urban settings, the percent minority population and the divorce rate for each state are included as control variables.
At the bivariate level the political and the legal index and the percent minority population and the population living in poverty are strongly related to the state homicide rate. The results of the multiple regression analysis revealed that gender equality in the legal realm had a negative impact on the state homicide rate while the percent population in poverty had a positive impact.
Overall, the results of this study give some support to the hypothesis that states with higher rates of gender inequality would be expected to have higher rates of murders committed by women against their mates. As a partial test of socialist feminism, this study also lends support to the larger argument of this theory that the structure of gender relations has important consequences for individuals, including their propensity to commit particular types of crimes.
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