delinquent girls

Question 1

What do Graham and Bowling say about delinquent ?

Answer 1

Female deviance peaks earlier than boys and also girls stop being deviant.
Age 14-17: 1 in 4
Age 22-25: 1 in 11

Question 2

What does Heidensohn ?

Answer 2

• lower female deviance is due to higher control
• For example: curfews, clothes
• When girls do commit crime it makes the double deviant
• Because they have gone against the regular norms and gender

Question 3

What do Pearce and Pitts say ?

Answer 3

12,500 girls have involvement in gangs

Question 4

What does harding say about the delinquent girls ?

Answer 4

• Girls in gangs are fixers
• Controlled through sexual violence
• The girls sort things out and amy be alibis

Question 5

What does Burman discuss about girl gangs ?

Answer 5

• girls in Scotland didn’t have violence as a major issue
• 0 in 800 were involved in gangs
• physical violence was very rare
• after research there was a heavy influence on media
• the media said girls were ‘deadly as males’
• this created moral panic

Question 6

What was Blackman’s stduy ?

Answer 6

• looked at new wave girls
• visible subculture
• cared about their education
• were anti-school
• resistant
• adapted uniform with dr martens and punk fashion
• skipped lesson, didn’t follow rules