Young Adult Offending: Intersectionality of Gender and Race

Life Course Offending Pathways Across Gender and Race/Ethnicity

“…As such, we are able to contribute to the emerging literature on gender and race/ethnicity intersectionality and offending, which to date focuses on qualitative or cross-sectional data, precluding any conclusions about the developmental/life course effects of intersectionality. Recent work by Bell [14] with the Philadelphia Birth Cohort shows the influence of intersectionality on offending at key developmental moments by looking at its effects on juvenile and young adult offending. She finds cumulative effects that are most acute in young adulthood.…”

Understanding the Subgroup Complexities of Transfer: The Impact of Juvenile Race and Gender on Waiver Decisions

“…For each youth, data were available for both legal (e.g., crime severity, prior referrals) and extralegal (e.g., age, school status) characteristics. These factors are included in all analyses based on prior research of juvenile justice decision-making (Moore & Padavic, 2010; Poulos & Orchowsky, 1994; Zane et al, 2016) and studies that have utilized the intersectionality perspective as a theoretical framework (Bell, 2013; Leiber, Brubaker, & Fox, 2009; Maggard, Higgins, & Chappell, 2013; Peck, Leiber, & Brubaker, 2014). The coding and distribution of the independent, control, and dependent variables for the entire sample and subsamples of Whites and Blacks are provided in Table 1.…”

From “Buzzword” to Best Practice: Applying Intersectionality to Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

“…While empirical studies on the impact of IPV on children and the efficacy of interventions have increased in recent years, explanatory frameworks have typically not drawn upon the complexities of intersecting social statuses and systems of oppression afforded to adult survivors of violence. Yet, research from other disciplines shows that children’s lives are not unaffected by their social locations (e.g., Bell, 2013; Button & Worthen, 2014; Ecklund, 2012; Fader & Traylor, 2015; Kahn, 2014; Lahlah, Lens, Bogaerts, & van der Knaap, 2013; Shade, Kools, Weiss, & Pinderhughes, 2011; Singh, 2013), indicating that existing child-focused theories on IPV exposure would be enhanced by the incorporation of intersectionality theory. Accordingly, this article has two main objectives: First, to examine the current state of the literature on children exposed to IPV through an exploratory meta-analysis to highlight the absence of intersectionality; and second, to demonstrate why and how an intersectional framework should be applied to children exposed to IPV.…”

“…Research on children’s development, health, and criminality have recognized the importance of applying intersectionality to this demographic, with many emerging qualitative and quantitative studies incorporating this perspective to the study of child and adolescent outcomes (e.g., Bell, 2013; Button & Worthen, 2014; Byrd, Kahle, Peguero, & Popp, 2015; Ecklund, 2012; Fader & Traylor, 2015; Garnett et al, 2014; Grollman, 2015; Kahn, 2014; Krumer-Nevo & Komem, 2015; Lahlah et al, 2013; Landstedt & Gadin, 2012; Murphy, Acosta, & Kennedy-Lewis, 2013; Peck, Leiber, & Brubaker, 2013; Rogers, Scott, & Way, 2015; Shade et al, 2011; Shuttleworth, Wedgwood, & Wilson, 2012; Singh, 2013). In these areas, researchers have drawn attention to the ways in which power, oppression, and identity impact children’s lives as well as the capability of children to both understand and assign meaning to various categories, such as race and gender, as young as 3 years of age (Corsaro & Fingerson, 2003; Derman-Sparks & Ramsey, 2006; Van Ausdale & Feagin, 2001).…”