Roles convergence is one aspect of explanation for the rising crime rate among women. The roles of women have converged with or become similar to those of men. When roles converge, behavior becomes similar. The role convergence hypothesis suggests that as gender roles become more similar, female crime should increase toward the level of male crime. Cross-nationally, modernization has been conceptualized as resulting in increased female crime, in part through its supposed effect on gender role convergence. There is new evidence relating to the role convergence hypothesis that there has been convergence between certain male and female offences over time.
Role theory includes Role Strain, Role Playing, Role Distancing, Role-Taking, and Role Convergence. Constant upskilling and role convergence is the future for IT professionals in a changing world of WFH. The women's liberation role reversal, human liberation role convergence, and sexism role variation theories of female crime are more and more visible now.
Gender Role Convergence In Crime: Evidence From Canadian Adult Offence Charge Data - Jyh-Yaw Joseph Chen, David E. A. Giles. ABSTRACT: Using time-series data for adults charged with offences in Canada over the period 1983 to 2000, we conduct several formal econometric tests of the role convergence hypothesis. This study allows for the non-stationarity of the data; structural breaks in some of the time-series; and it employs several new tests that have not previously been applied to this problem. Our results provide the first strong evidence of gender-role-convergence for a range of offences in Canada.
Liberation and Crime - The invention of the new
female criminal - J G Weis.
Annotation: This paper presents empirical examinations of three current theoretical
perspectives on female crime which address changes in the roles and criminal behavior of
women.
Abstract: the women's liberation (role reversal), human liberation (role convergence), and
sexism (role variation) theories of female crime are examined in light of recent analyses
of national arrest data and the self-reported delinquent behavior of 555 eighth and
eleventh grade students in an upper-middle class suburban community.
It is concluded that the empirical evidence suggests
that the sexism model is more valid than the liberation theories of female crime and
juvenile delinquency.