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Gender and Youth Deviance - Coggle Diagram
Gender and Youth Deviance
Not involved Girls
Girls are more socialised into bedroom culture so have less opportunity to commit crime- Mc Robbie and Garber
Girls are socialised into being gentle whereas boy into aggressive
Gender role socialisation- Oakley (cannalisation, manipulation and verbal application
More social control on girls therefore they have less opportunity to commit crime- Lees (peer groups) and Family
Have little subcultural capital- Thornton, therefore less likely to commit deviance
Less disposable income
Munci
Small rises in recorded crime created a moral panic about female offending and girl gangs, suggesting that the rise in the imprisonment of young women has been an over reaction
Active Girls
Females may continue to offend their teens, offending drops markedly after this is they seem to grow out of it whereas offending rates for males do not decline significantly well until 20s
The criminal statistics suggest that youth crime is overwhelmingly committed by males. They outnumber female delinquents by a ratio of about 5:1.
However this may be the result of paternalistic police officers who apply a chivalry factor when dealing with young female delinquents
Police officers are less likely to stereotype girls as delinquent and are therefore more likely to stop them and if they do, they are more likely to informally caution them rather than arrest and charge them
Active Girls- Mc Robbie (Ragga Girls)
Thornton- clubbing culture
Links
Hollands- Friday and Saturday night
Reddington- Punk culture
Self forthfilling prophecy- Interactionist (Becker, labelled therefore live up to behaviour)
Boys
Males have more freedom to commit crime especially as have more disposable income
Men aged 10-17 to be responsible for 20 per cent of crime in 2009/10 whereas 4 per cent of women
Boys socialised into being aggressive
Gender role socialisation- Oakley (cannalisation, manipulation and verbal application
Peak age is 18
More peer pressure on men to commit crimes and do not want to be seen as 'not cool'
Self forthfilling prophecy- Interactionist (Becker, labelled therefore live up to behaviour)
Girls commit more crime than suggested by the official statistics
Feminists also criticise sociological studies of youth crime as ‘male stream; for assuming that only males engage in this form of behaviour and consequently neglecting or ignoring female delinquency.