Female delinquency.

2015 ◽  
pp. 80-112
Author(s):  
Herbert Blumer ◽  
Philip M. Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Female Delinquency

Family Dysfunction and Female Delinquency

1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Leslie Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Family Size ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Family Dysfunction ◽  
Female Delinquency ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
California Youth Authority ◽  
The Family ◽  
Status Offenses

This article examines the family backgrounds of a group of women who, as adolescents in the early 1960s, were committed to the California Youth Authority predominantly for status offenses and continued their criminal behavior into adulthood. Particular attention is paid to various measures of dysfunction, including family violence, parent-child conflict, family size, structure, and stability. Little variation existed within the various independent measures; all of the women came from dysfunctional homes. The manner in which these young women were dealt with by the Youth Authority is examined within the context of the cultural attitudes of that particular time.

FEMALE DELINQUENCY AND BROKEN HOMES A Re-Assessment

Criminology ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSAN K. DATESMAN ◽  
FRANK R. SCARPITTI
Keyword(s):  
Female Delinquency ◽  
Broken Homes

Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Loeber ◽  
Wesley G. Jennings ◽  
Lia Ahonen ◽  
Alex R. Piquero ◽  
David P. Farrington
Keyword(s):  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Female Delinquency

Constructing a Black Female Delinquent

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-96
Author(s):  
Tera Eva Agyepong
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
African American Girls ◽  
Training School ◽  
Female Delinquency ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Delinquent Girls

This chapter examines the state’s flagship institution for delinquent girls. It reveals the way intersecting notions of race, gender, and sexuality shaped reformers’ and practitioners’ implementation of juvenile justice. African American girls at the Illinois Training School were blamed for the interracial sexual relationships staff members and professionals abhorred and were considered the most violent girls in the institution. They also became subject to a race specific and gendered construction of female delinquency in the institution. Unlike the image of a fixable, inherently innocent delinquent that spurred the child-saving movement, black girls were cast as inherently deviant, unfixable, and dangerous delinquent whose negative influences could contaminate other children in the institution.

A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Delinquency

1979 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Cernkovich ◽  
Peggy C. Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Female Delinquency ◽  
Male And Female

A Reformulation of the "Equal Opportunity" Explanation of Female Delinquency

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefina Figueira-McDonough ◽  
Elaine Selo
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Model ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Female Delinquency ◽  
Female Criminality

The "equal opportunity" thesis predicts that an increase in legitimate opportunities for women will be accompanied by an increase in female criminality. Through a theoretical inventory of opportunity-related delinquency explanations, some crucial links in the causal relationship between opportunity and delinquency are identified. The original equal opportunity hypothesis is then expanded into a more comprehensive predictive model.

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