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Various perspectives and theories regarding female delinquency throughout history, including the works of lombrosso, cowie, freud, w.i. Thomas, peter bols, otto pollack, susan datesman, freda adler, and criticisms of the women's liberation movement. Topics cover causes of female delinquency, such as biological factors, social pressures, and limited opportunities.
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% Women are inferior to men % Unable to feel pain % Characterized by a passive, conservative approach % Women are born with feminine characteristics that make them dull % Female criminal is more vicious
% Over-development leads to early sex % Menstruation is a distressing reminder that they will never be men % Frustration leads to crime
% Girls feel deprived because they're not boys % Adapt? % Having a baby % Delinquents attempt to be a man
% Boys have a certain force (katabolic, destructive) % Girls have an anabolic force (motionless, conservative) % The Unadjusted Girl % Desire for new experiences, security, recognition/response, sex used as a form of human capitol
% Female delinquency is a sexual acting out % Revenge against the mother % Could be attempt to restore reality to an emotionally alienated girl
% Women committing crime but not caught % Women are inherently deceitful (instigators) % Women commit crimes in relation to their occupation % Chivalry could be occurring from police and judges
% Limited opportunities more tied to females % All delinquents regarded their opportunity less positively compared to non-delinquents
% Adult women and juvenile crime is linked to opportunity % Girls have been instilled that they should have the same ambitions as boys % The opportunities are not there % Some girls may pick up on traditional male delinquency act
% Mostly poor, minority women in crime (Crites) % Poor women always competing with men (Crites) % W.L.M no impact on women and crime (Steffensmeier) % Increase in crime started before late 60s % Increase in female crime is more of a social invention (Weis)
% Why are most of us not criminal? % We have ties to conventional/social order % We are attached to others (parents) % Commitment to other institutions (School) % Beliefs and involvement matter % Delinquent when attachment to social order is broken/weak
% Most likely scenarios for females to be delinquent % Female committing delinquent act in mixed gender group % Alone % Group of females % Pair of females % One girl and many boys % One boy
% Moral evaluation mattered most for girls % Slows down level of delinquency
% Mothers are gaining power relative to the husband % More women working outside the home % Patriarchal families are moving toward egalitarian
% Happiness of marriage was key factor of delinquency (Nye) % Good marital relationships and cohesiveness was key in preventing delinquency (Gluecks) % Parental love can act as a psychological anchor to conformity (Lagrange)
% Focuses on African-American boys % Study of boys in Philadelphia % Lower delinquency rates for African-American boys who had high interactions with father
% Delinquency is 10-15% higher in broken home % Stronger for minor forms of delinquency % Stronger for families broken by divorce vs. death % Child's age at time of break up did not matter % No impact of step-parents
% Strict, being lax, or unfair could all lead to delinquency % Disciplinary role of father mattered more
% 2 studies % 29% of abused and neglected children ended up with serious criminal records as adults % 21% of non-abused control group % Maltreated children ended up with more juvenile arrests % More likely arrested for violent crime % More serious delinquent careers
% Looked at mothers accused of neglect % Apathetic-Futile Mother % emotionally numb to children % Impulse-ridden Mother % Restless and crazed excitement
% Mentally retarded Mother % Reaction-depressive Mother % Borderline/Psychotic Mother
% Myths of Corporal Punishment % Spanking is abuse % 90% of families use spanking % Does not seem to work short term but not long term % Negative impact long term % Mothers tend to hit more % No social class factors % Works as a cycle
% Saw over 250 pupils receive 328 separate whippings in one week (in
% Problems % Poor achievement % Lack of funding % Crime
% Failure to provide a safe, orderly environment % Areas where there are high social problems % Authoritarian and repressive school atmospheres % Creates bored, frustrated, alienated kids
% 1970s % Secondary school pupils experienced increasing theft and violence % 1980s % Teachers are subjects of assault % 1990s % Violent crimes at school increased