Independent Relations Between Capitalism and Crime (Other (Not Listed) Sample)

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Capitalism and Crime, Patriarchy and Crime
This paper discusses the independent relations between capitalism and crime, and patriarchy and crime. It seeks to affirm that capitalism has greater influence on crime than patriarchy.
Capitalism is system where private owners' objective is the pursuit and maximization of profit. Cheap technological advancement and competition for resources causes unemployment and low wages. Unemployment and low wages pushes people to crime CITATION Ozt05 \l 1033 (Ozturk, 2005). Low wages and unemployment caused by capitalism do increase crime rates CITATION Ozt05 \l 1033 (Ozturk, 2005). Patriarchy results in women having low wages and low position in the society. However, with the fading of patriarchal system, women crime rates have not changed. Women arrest rates are still low, less than 20%, in nearly all categories of crime CITATION Ozt05 \l 1033 (Ozturk, 2005). This shows that capitalism has a greater influence on crime than patriarchy.
Effects Females would have had on Criminology
Early male criminology theorists focused on women's biology, psychology and sexist biases ignoring the social, political and economic factors influencing female criminality CITATION Fem \l 1033 (Feminist Criminology, n.d.). This paper tries argues that these neglected factors by male theorist would not have changed female criminology had female theorist been involved in designing those early theories.
The assumptions of liberal thesis and power control theory (both supported by female criminologist) that increase in female economic opportunities ...