Female Delinquency in Portugal: What Girls Have to Say About Their Offending Behaviors

Duarte, Vera; Carvalho, Maria João Leote

doi:10.1007/s12147-017-9187-8

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“…Vera Duarte developed a qualitative research study between 2008 and 2009 that aimed to study the experiences and meanings of transgression in the life paths of delinquent girls. She adopted as an empirical referent both young girls detained in a particular youth educational centre and young girls serving under non-institutional educational tutorial measures, under the supervision of the Educational Tutelary Teams of the DGRSP, in the Lisbon metropolitan area (Duarte, 2012; Duarte and Carvalho, 2017). In the scope of other projects she has returned to several youth educational centres for data collection, both as researcher and as project coordinator (Duarte, 2017; Azevedo and Duarte, 2014).…”

Section: Introduction: Confinement Settings As Ethically Challenging mentioning

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What about ethics? Developing qualitative research in confinement settings

Gomes

Duarte

2018

European Journal of Criminology

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The main purpose of this article is to discuss some ethical-methodological issues associated with scientific research in confinement settings, particularly those that result from the relationship with the confined individual in the framework of qualitative research. Basing the reflection on empirical research developed by both authors in Portuguese confinement settings – prisons and youth educational centres – we examine the significant challenges and dilemmas this type of research entails, exploring the interface between procedural ethics and ethics in practice at three points in the analytical process: before, during and after data collection. This article illustrates the interplay between formal and informal procedures, and between the initial distancing and strangeness when making contact with confinement settings and their social actors and the institutional and relational dynamics that become ingrained in our everyday practice. Our goal is to give visibility to these institutional and relational dynamics and to reflect on the challenges experienced by those who enter confinement settings to do research, in an effort to make the research process more transparent and at the same time more reflexive. We end our reflection advocating more ethically committed and critical scientific research.

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Section: Introduction: Confinement Settings As Ethically Challenging mentioning

confidence: 99%

What about ethics? Developing qualitative research in confinement settings

Gomes

Duarte

2018

European Journal of Criminology

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“…Furthermore, it is important to consider that the social context in which females live and grow up can play a central role in their deviant and criminal path (Levy et al, 2020). For decades, girls were absent from the focus of neighborhood studies; it was only recently that the role of neighborhood variables in determining gender differences in violence and delinquency gained more visibility (Kling et al, 2005;Goodkind et al, 2009;Zahn & Browne, 2009;Zimmerman & Messner, 2010;Fagan & Wright, 2012;Carvalho, 2013;Haynie et al, 2014;Lei et al, 2014;Schneider, 2016;Steffensmeier & Haynie, 2000;Jacob, 2006;Mrug & Windle, 2009;Duarte & Carvalho, 2017;Sampson, 2019). There is strong evidence demonstrating the differences between girls who are exposed and girls who are not exposed to structural disadvantage and violence in the context in which they live (Augimeri et al, 2011).…”

Section: The Single Story About Female Crime and Delinquency: Literature Overviewmentioning

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“…1 Thus, at the national level, it is not possible to talk about juvenile 'crime', except for acts committed by people over 16 years old, when they are already considered criminally liable (see clarification by Duarte & Carvalho, 2017;Carvalho, 2015Carvalho, , 2018.…”

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“…In Portugal, the first studies on female crime and delinquency appeared in the 1980s and underwent a boom at the beginning of the millennium (Gomes & Duarte, 2018a). These studies focus on women in law (Beleza, 1993), women in prison (Carmo & Fr aguas, 1982;Cunha, 1994Cunha, , 2002Cunha, , 2010Gomes & Granja, 2015a;Granja, 2015Granja, , 2017Granja et al, 2013;Matos, 2008), the criminal trajectories of women in general (Leal, 2007;Pedroso et al, 2017) and of foreign and Roma women in particular (Esposito et al, 2020;Gomes, 2014Gomes, , 2018Gomes, , 2019Gomes & Granja, 2015b;Matos, 2014, Matos et al, 2019, and violence and female juvenile delinquency (Carvalho, 2017(Carvalho, , 2018(Carvalho, , 2020Duarte, 2012;Duarte & Carvalho, 2017;Duarte & Cunha, 2014;Duarte-Fonseca, 2000;Duarte & Vieites-Rodrigues, 2015;Pedroso et al, 2017). This boom closely followed profound social changes in Portuguese society in terms of the nature and extent of female crime and delinquency, particularly in the two Metropolitan Areas of Lisbon and Oporto.…”

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“…This boom closely followed profound social changes in Portuguese society in terms of the nature and extent of female crime and delinquency, particularly in the two Metropolitan Areas of Lisbon and Oporto. In fact, the profound social inequalities in these particular geographical areas are an expression and provide a basis for understanding and analysis of the deviant and criminal involvement of particular groups, such as children and young people (Carvalho, 2010(Carvalho, , 2013(Carvalho, , 2014(Carvalho, , 2015(Carvalho, , 2019, ethnic minorities (Cunha, 2002(Cunha, , 2010Gomes, 2014Gomes, , 2019, and also females offenders (Carvalho, 2017(Carvalho, , 2018(Carvalho, , 2020Cunha, 2002;Duarte & Carvalho, 2017;Gomes, 2018). In addition, the new nature of female crime can be observed in the role of women as offenders in extremely gendered crimes such as stalking, where traditionally we saw them as victims rather than perpetrators (Grangeia & Santos, 2018).…”

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Female Crime and Delinquency: A Kaleidoscope of Changes at the Intersection of Gender and Age

Carvalho

Duarte

Gomes

2021

Women & Criminal Justice

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This article discusses the role that gender and age play in female crime and delinquency in Portugal, drawing on the voices of female offenders across different generations-childhood, youth, and adulthood. Based on the analysis of 49 interviews with female offenders, it explores the ways in which these girls and women construct and account for their own criminal behavior. The results reveal a kaleidoscope of changes cutting across generational groups, punctuated by increasing involvement of younger groups in offending as a form of emancipation. Young and older female offenders show different patterns of offending, which reflect multiple and ambivalent old and new forms of femininity. Girls' and women's paths both to and in offending have their own idiosyncrasies. They also reflect the way gender is being constantly reconfigured and reconstructed through time, and in different social and institutional contexts.

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