The Relationships Of Offending, Victimisation And Treatment Within The Criminal Justice Process

Introduction:
I will be debating the relationships of offending, victimisation and treatment within the criminal justice process with gender. Gender is where someone’s characteristics that are built in socially in of women and men. It differs from society to society. It depends on which gender you belong too you are educated with the appropriate society norms and behaviour which will affect on how they will treat the same and opposite sex. This can either be in households, work place or in the community. If someone doesn’t fit into the society group they receive a lot of discriminatory practice and social exclusion, which will affect that individual’s health especially their mental state. Within this essay I will talk about how gender effects
The societies response can vary for different reasons especially of the sex of the victim or to offender. As there are different expectations between the females and males. As in society there are some crimes that re expected to be done by women and some however it is unthinkable for a woman to commit. For example, in society women are not seen as doing violent crimes such as rape that they cannot rape a man and a man can rape a women, a woman isn’t seen as being able to do child abuse as what they are seen in society as a home-maker and a nurturer, and a woman isn’t seen as committing domestic abuse to their boyfriend or husband, as they aren’t seen in society as weak and that the man should be able to take the beating and that he should take control of his girlfriend or wife, in fact many men don’t speak out when their female partner is abusing them as they don’t want the community to see him as weak. If a woman is in a relationship with another woman and there is domestic abuse the police will instantly think to it being a male rather than a female. It is the same for a male if they were in a relationship with another man with domestic abuse they will think he can’t stand up to a girl and immediately think that he isn’t a proper man as he
Whoever has been a suspect of crime, do have some sort of protections against abuse of investigatory and prosecution powers. However, the criminal justice system does vary around the globe. However, in England and Wales they have a focus on to reduce crime by bringing the offences to justice and to raise publics awareness and assurance in the system which is fair and will deliver for the average law- abiding citizen. The Criminal justice system seem to require a higher level of punishment to shape the individual behaviour to perform as a deterrent towards men to prevent them from re- offending and more community work and cautions for women. Therefore it is suggesting that the criminal justice system has a traditionalist method of how they work with the males and they have a more positive method with the