TY - JOUR
AU - Cruyff, Maarten J. L. F.
AB - This article considers differences in patterns of youth delinquency and problembehaviour between boys and girls. It uses cross-sectional surveys of self-reportedyouth offending in 11 European countries, and a similar survey covering variousethnic groups in Rotterdam, both carried out in 1992. These surveys show that thereremains a substantial gap in the level of delinquency between girls and boys acrossall countries and ethnic groups. The findings confirm that weak social controls byfamily and school are an important correlate of delinquency for males and females inall country clusters and across all ethnic groups. On the whole, the correlates ofdelinquency are found to be similar in males and females, which suggests that thereis no need for a different theory to explain delinquency in boys and girls. Socialcontrol explains part of the gap in delinquency between boys and girls, simplybecause social controls of girls tend to be stronger and tighter. Culturallydetermined differences in the strength of family-based social controls can alsoexplain some of the variation in delinquency between ethnic groups.
TI - Juvenile Delinquency and Gender
JF - European Journal of Criminology
DO - 10.1177/1477370804044007
DA - 2004-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/juvenile-delinquency-and-gender-0BT0NVgdE0
SP - 333
EP - 375
VL - 1
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -