Samantha Applin

Bio: Samantha Applin is an academic researcher from State University of New York at Cortland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Power (social and political) & Patriarchy. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 70 citations. Previous affiliations of Samantha Applin include State University of New York System.

Her American Dream Bringing Gender Into Institutional-Anomie Theory

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present a gender-sensitized approach to Institutional-Anomie Theory (IAT) that recognizes the pervasiveness and import of gender at the institutional and cultural levels. Drawing on feminist literature, we discuss the gendering of the family and the economy, and the implications of such gendering for understanding the social organization of American society and the “institutional balance of power,” as explicated by Messner and Rosenfeld in Crime and the American Dream. At a cultural level, we propose that the tendency to conceive of men as normative helps reconcile two seemingly incompatible premises in IAT: the claim that there is a dominant form of social organization that characterizes American society and the empirical observation that cultural orientations and institutional involvement actually differ dramatically for males and females. From a social structural perspective, we describe the varying ways that institutions are by their very nature gendered and how the g...

A Critical Inquiry Into the Field of Multinational Research on Women’s Offending

Abstract: This paper provides a comprehensive and critical look at the current state of multinational research on women’s offending and scrutinizes how this knowledge has been derived. The importance of global research for theoretical advancement is discussed. Questions about the validity of official data estimates as proxies for women’s offending in cross-national research focus on the extent to which research findings are reflecting behavioural differences among the populations being studied or other exogenous factors, such as policing, policy and data collection. This paper carries on a tradition of inquiry into the data by presenting visual heuristics to facilitate easy interpretation of definitional differences in specified crime types across time and between country and by determining societal factors that correlate with the “dark figure of crime” when contrasting arrests and reported victimization across nations. The findings suggest cautious optimism for proceeding with rigorously compiled multinational official data sources to advance this important field of work.

Women and crime

Abstract: COURSE DESCRIPTION AND GOALS This course is designed to guide students through the literature on female offending as well as women’s and girls’ involvement in and experiences within the justice system. We will also touch upon the gendered experiences of working in justice institutions. Although gender and social control will be the primary framework for this course, we will also examine how gender combines with class, race, and ethnicity in theory and in female offending.

The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued

Abstract: The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued Ann Crittenden New York: Metropolitan Books 2001 323 pp ISBN: 0-8050-6618-7, $2500 (cloth) When I saw the book jacket endorsements from well-known authors like Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild, I figured this book would be well-researched, pointed, and persuasive It is, although not without its limitations Ann Crittenden has crafted an eminently readable and informative review of the current social scientific research documenting the fact that, "raising children may be the most important job in the world, but you can't put it on a resume" The early chapters of the book deftly draw upon a who's-who list of social scientists regarded as leaders in the research of women's persistent wage inequality-Claudia Goldin, Barbara Bergmann, Paula England, Suzanne Bianchi, Jane Waldfogel, Felice Schwartz Refreshingly free of jargon and pretentious in-text citation lists, the book introduces these academics and not just their work Indeed, the text makes clear that Crittenden met with and is able to directly quote many of the researchers The book takes to task simplistic economic arguments, pointing out the inadequacies of earlier economic theorizing about why women and mothers are not financially rewarded by society (Chapter 4) The author pushes the issue of how mothers' household labor is kept out of the market although that same labor produces much of the human capital that their children will bring to the labor market as adults To explain why the "hand that rocks the cradle" has been rendered as a truly invisible hand, she turns attention to larger social processes and institutions such as marriage, law, and politics The middle part of the book focuses on wives' economic dependency on husbands, divorce law, and divorce settlement Each chapter relies mostly on one or two anecdotes or on individual legal cases and interviews of plaintiffs, supplemented by research statistics Chapters 10-- 12 take the government to task, decrying the lack of publicly funded childcare, the lack of social security payments for stay-at-home mothers, and the weak enforcement of child support law and settlements Crittenden concludes with a collection of familiar policy suggestions, including calls for businesses to pay for a year of paid parental leave for all workers, for the federal government to fund universal preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds, for states to regard all family income as evenly divisible for husband and wife upon divorce, and for communities to change their attitudes and actions in ways that support people who decide to focus on parenting …

The Darker Side of Equality? The Declining Gender Gap in Crime: Historical Trends and an Enhanced Analysis of Staggered Birth Cohorts

Abstract: In this article, we elucidate the way the gender gap in crime has changed in Sweden since the mid-19th century. The analysis is directed at theft offences and violent crime. The long historical per ...