This essay will crucially consider whether inequalities exist within the criminal justice system between mothers and fathers, it will analyze many statistics on males and females in prison with relationships between mothers in prison and that is with respect to fathers, also a comparison between crime and relationships with crime to show a clear understanding of whether or not there are inequalities. The essay will discuss the criminological theories that link how crime is viewed in society, the differences of each gender who committed the same crime, the theories that will be used are feminist theory which will focus on how mothers end up in prison and also how they are treated differently than fathers within the criminal justice system. The second theory will be the strain theory and will address how tension and pressure can build up to lead to a criminal act committed by women and the consequences of conviction, this will address how children become victims among incarcerated parents and focusing on the tension that a mother goes through compared to a father. Other approaches that connect within feminist theory and tension are oppression, social control and male domination, which will address how the construction of uncontrollable actions would lead the path to prison for mothers and fathers and how these factors play a huge role. It could be argued, and has been argued, that all kinds of sexist prejudices, language and behavior are still common and still enter the criminal justice process as a result of the sex of the offender, this is because the criminal justice system can favor potential female offenders. more men appear as known delinquents (Pollak, 1950). However, it is above all men who commit more...... middle of paper ......: Control, Help and Change? London: Joint Criminal Justice Inspection. Ministry of Justice. (2010, September 23). Monthly tables of population in custody August 2010 England and Wales. London, UK, England.Mooney, J. (2000). Gender, violence and social order. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Pollak, O. (1950). Women's crime. New York: Greenwood Press.Prison Reform Trust. (2010). Women in prison. London: Prison Reform Trust. Smith, P., & Riley, A. (2009). Cultural theory: an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Visher, C. A. (2013). Incarcerated fathers: Paths from prison to home. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 24(1), 9-26. Walklate, S. (2004). Gender crime and criminal justice. Devon: Willan Publishing.Women in Prison. (2013, October 1). STATISTICS. Retrieved November 29, 2013, from Women in Prison: http://www.womeninprison.org.uk.