Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Gender and Deviant Subcultures-
Delinquent girls
- Graham and Bowling- peak of commiting
crime is lower for girls
- Heidensohn- Research is malestream, girls commit
crime it is just not researched. When girls commit
crime they are doubly deviant
- Lees- Girls are more likely to face control by their peer
groups in relation to their reputation. Prevents them
from being deviant.
- Klein- female gang members commit equally
violent acts as their male counterparts
- Pearce and Pitts- female gangs are less evident but exist
- Harding- Girls use their social skills to
make a role for themselves in gangs
- Thompson- media has exaggerated the increase in
female crime. Moral Panic.
- Muncie- Moral panic over female offending and girl gangs