Crime and Delinquency
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Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency
Tập 35 Số 1 - Trang 5-29 - 1989
This article argues that existing delinquency theories are fundamentally
inadequate to the task of explaining female delinquency and official reactions
to girls' deviance. To establish this, the article first reviews the degree of
the androcentric bias in the major theories of delinquent behavior. Then the
need for a feminist model of female delinquency is explored by reviewing the
available evide...
Youth Gangs and Definitional Issues: When is a Gang a Gang, and Why Does it Matter?
Tập 47 Số 1 - Trang 105-130 - 2001
The recent explosion in gang research has highlighted the importance of
consistent definitions for gang affiliation and gang-related crime. Definitional
questions have assumed greater significance in the wake of broad-ranging
prevention and intervention strategies. In this article, the authors utilize a
sample of approximately 6,000 middle-school students to examine the youth gang
phenomenon using...
Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and “Supermax” Confinement
Tập 49 Số 1 - Trang 124-156 - 2003
This article discusses the recent increase in the use of solitary-like
confinement, especially the rise of so-called supermax prisons and the special
mental health issues and challenges they pose. After briefly discussing the
nature of these specialized and increasingly widespread units and the forces
that have given rise to them, the article reviews some of the unique
mental-health-related issues...
Undetected Recidivism among Rapists and Child Molesters
Tập 28 Số 3 - Trang 450-458 - 1982
Although recidivism among dangerous sexual offenders is generally reported to be
low, clinical experience suggests otherwise. In order to assess the actual
recidivism rate of offenders who commit sexual as saults, we administered to a
sample of eighty-three convicted rapists and fifty-four convicted child
molesters an anonymous questionnaire in which they were asked a series of
questions pertainin...
Understanding the Black Box of Gang Organization
Tập 54 Số 1 - Trang 153-172 - 2008
This article examines the influence of gang organization on several behavioral
measures. Using interview data from juvenile detention facilities in three
Arizona sites, this article examines the relationship between gang
organizational structure and involvement in violent crime, drug sales,
victimization, and arrest. The gang literature suggests that gangs are not very
well organized. However, the...
Exposure to Community Violence and Childhood Delinquency
Tập 52 Số 2 - Trang 307-332 - 2006
Community-level factors such as disadvantage, disorder, and disorganization have
been linked to a variety of antisocial and illicit activities. Although crime
and deviance tend to concentrate in areas with these characteristics, not all
residents of disorganized neighborhoods participate in proscribed activities.
This study examines the relationship between exposure to community violence and
invol...
Assessing the Validity of Self-Reports by Gang Members: Results From the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program
Tập 52 Số 2 - Trang 232-252 - 2006
Scholars who study criminal and delinquent behavior rely on the self-report
method for measuring crime and delinquency. Gang researchers also rely on the
self-report method for determining gang involvement and measuring criminal and
delinquent behavior of gang members. This study examines disclosure rates of
recent drug use by gang members in comparison with their urinalysis outcomes. A
substantia...
Serious Crime, News Coverage, and Ideology
Tập 27 Số 2 - Trang 191-205 - 1981
This exploratory study of the coverage of serious crime by the New York Post is
based on routine crime stories (n = 126) taken from newspapers published in 1951
and 1968. There was an increase in stories about lethal violence. In both years
reporters frequently described offenders in terms of age, gender, racial
membership, and employment status, and used these descriptions to situate
individuals ...
Predicting Drug Arrest Rates: Conflict and Social Disorganization Perspectives
Tập 47 Số 1 - Trang 84-104 - 2001
Using 1989 data on illegal drug possession and trafficking arrests and
socioeconomic data from the 1990 census, this article presents a series of
models of drug arrest rates for a sample of U.S. cities. Comparing predictions
derived from social disorganization and conflict theories, the models
demonstrate that the racial composition of these cities, even while controlling
for economic deprivation ...