Is Sex is commonly used to describe the innate biological characteristics of humans constituting their femaleness or maleness?

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Sex is commonly used to describe the innate biological characteristics of humans constituting their femaleness or maleness.  Gender on the other hand, covers the social characteristics and usages associated with one sex or the other.  Since such roles and customs can vary and be modified it follows that masculine and feminine the terms applied to the respective genders are much more flexible than female and male.

 In order to cover the subject of gender and crime it is important to explain its prehistory and standing as well as addressing the extensive material which appeared in the modern period of high fertility.

   Of course the definition of what is a woman or a man by no means always straightforward. Since such roles and customs can vary and be modified it follows that masculine and feminine the terms applied to the respective genders are much more flexible than female and male.

  Feminism has raised many uncomfortable questions for criminologist and has been critical of mainstream criminology for its gender-neutral focus and its exclusion of women.

  When the female was considered, she was generally seen as being inferior to the male.  Although conformity was generally to be appreciated, when women conformed it showed their inferiority. This inferiority was of the same type whether it was seen as arising out of biological, psychological or social reasons.

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The woman was seen dependent passive, uncompetitive, immature, unachieving, unintelligent, emotional subjective and irrational.  Feminists in various ways have challenged this view of women.

   A number of studies have shown that female emancipation is likely to have some indirect effect upon officially recorded cases of female criminality.  These studies suggest a correlation between changing perceptions of women by bodies who enforce the criminal law and the increase in recorded female crime.  Thirty years ago women were less likely to be suspected of crime, when suspected they were less likely to be change and prosecuted and finally, when  prosecuted ...

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