Gender as social control: A qualitative study of incarcerated youths and their siblings in greater Sacramento

Bottcher, Jean

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“…In support of this hypothesis, Farrington and Painter (2003) and Blitstein et al (2005) reported that, in general, family risk and protective factors more strongly predicted female than male offending. Likewise, evidence suggests that girls' lesser involvement in delinquency stems from closer parental monitoring and supervision (Bottcher, 1995), and from more involvement in family activities and greater belief in the importance of family (Canter, 1982). Other investigations, however, showed that lack of bonding to family members, single-parent status, and family strain were more likely to lead to offending for boys compared with girls (Canter, 1982;Moffitt, Caspi, Rutter, & Silva, 2001;Piquero & Sealock, 2004).…”

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Gender Similarities and Differences in the Association Between Risk and Protective Factors and Self-Reported Serious Delinquency

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Boys consistently report higher rates of serious offending during late adolescence than do girls, yet research is mixed regarding the ways in which males and females may differentially experience risk and protection in their families, schools, peer groups, and as individuals. This article examines gender differences in 22 psychosocial risk and protective factors associated with serious delinquency. Based on self-reported information from 7,829 10th-grade students completing the Communities That Care Youth Survey, all psychosocial factors were significantly related to serious delinquency for both sexes. For 12 of the 22 factors, the strength of the association was significantly greater for males, and, for 18 factors, boys reported higher levels of risk exposure and lower levels of protection than did girls. Together, these findings suggest that boys' greater involvement in serious delinquency is due to the combination of experiencing more risk and less protection than girls and the greater association of these predictors with serious delinquency for boys compared to girls. Implications for prevention programming are discussed.

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“…Theories that call attention to social control and women's offending have been supported by studies of how conventional families constrain girl's freedom and limit opportunities for delinquency (Bottcher 1995). Chesney-Lind and Shelden (1998) argue that a troubled home life plays a more crucial role in producing girls' delinquency than for boys.…”

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Gender, Ethnicity, and Offending over the Life Course: Women’s Pathways to Prison in the Aloha State

Brown

2006

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This paper develops what some researchers are now calling the 'pathways' approach to understanding women's criminality. This perspective argues that women's offending is an outgrowth of histories of violence, trauma, and addiction À conditioned by race, culture, gender inequality, and class. This paper expands the perspective on crime across the life course for females, providing a more nuanced analysis of the nature of intimate relationships and developmental turning points for women. Whereas men's assumption of adult responsibilities such as marriage and childrearing may be turning points away from delinquency and crime, the matter is far more complex and may even be the inverse for some women. The paper also finds that women of Native Hawaiian ancestry have more negative experiences with education, employment, and poorer outcomes on parole compared to women without Hawaiian ancestry, thus contributing to the literature on the relationship between ethnicity, structure, and offending over the life course. Life Course Development and the Pathways PerspectiveVersions of the life course development perspective highlight the links across stages of youthful development, delinquency and adult crime and their relation to social bonds. Sampson and Laub's Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life (1993) examines the interplay between structural and individual level variables over the life course, wherein life events mark processes of continuity and change in patterns of delinquency and offending. This genre examines the effects of social bonds that arise from affiliation with the institutions of family, school, and work and their relationship to human development over the life course. Sampson and Laub (1990) see social bonds like marriage or employment as important to explanations of changes in offending behavior. But these events are not separate from the larger influences of culture, political economy, and history. Feminist scholars have adopted concepts from life course development theories to talk about women's

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“…There may be marked gender differences in how parents raise their children, with parents more likely to monitor girls' behaviors, keep girls closer to home, and reinforce conforming rather than deviant behaviors more often for daughters than for sons (Bottcher, 1995; Hill & Atkinson, 1988; Keenan & Shaw, 1997). In contrast, parents are more likely to endorse (or passively accept) deviant behaviors in their male children and to allow sons more freedom, which results in greater opportunities for boys to engage in delinquency.…”

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How Do Families Matter? Age and Gender Differences in Family Influences on Delinquency and Drug Use

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Antaramian

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Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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Parenting practices, age, and gender all influence adolescent delinquency and drug use, but few studies have examined how these factors interact to affect offending. Using data from 18,512 students in Grades 6, 8, 10 and 12, this study found that across grades, parents treated girls and boys differently, but neither sex received preferential treatment for all practices assessed, and younger children reported more positive parenting than older students. Family factors were significantly related to delinquency and drug use for both sexes and for all grades. However, particular parenting practices showed gender and age differences in the degree to which they were related to outcomes, which indicates complexities in parent/child interactions that must be taken into account when investigating the causes of adolescent offending and when planning strategies to prevent the development of problem behaviors.

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Gender as social control: A qualitative study of incarcerated youths and their siblings in greater Sacramento

Cited by 34 publications

References 35 publications

Gender Similarities and Differences in the Association Between Risk and Protective Factors and Self-Reported Serious Delinquency

Gender Similarities and Differences in the Association Between Risk and Protective Factors and Self-Reported Serious Delinquency

Gender, Ethnicity, and Offending over the Life Course: Women’s Pathways to Prison in the Aloha State

How Do Families Matter? Age and Gender Differences in Family Influences on Delinquency and Drug Use

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