Female_Recidivisim

Female Recidivisim Gender Inequality The influence of society’s gender biased roles can be traced back to the moment of human birth. Immediately sex roles are defined and can be divided into stereotypes. At a very young age the child is exposed to what it means to be either a boy or a girl. There are the gender specific color associations of blue for male and pink for female. There are gender distinct male names such as John, Paul and Tim while female names include Mary, Lisa and Elizabeth. As the child grows, even play toys have their gender differentiated purposes such as cars, balls and tools for males while the females are given dolls, doll houses and tea sets (Adolescence 1997). A child’s earliest exposure to what it means to be male or female comes from the parents. There is an expectant behavior from the child and as children grow and develop the gender stereotypes that are continuously reinforced are further perpetuated throughout childhood and into adolescence. Thus the stereotypes become firmly implanted into beliefs and also as part of the child’s self-concept. The theoretical perspective of gender polarization is female, offenders, women, gender, male, females, criminal, recidivism, justice, roles, research, inequality, crimes, characteristics, been, thus, system, stereotypes, social, needs, abuse, treatment, time, society, predictors, males, first, either, crime, child, being, because, based, while, under-representation