Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation

Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation

This article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long-term follow-up of a sample of serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males. Neither marital attachment nor job stability, factors frequently associated with male desistance from crime, were strongly related to fema...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American journal of sociology 2002-01, Vol.107 (4), p.990-1064
Hauptverfasser: Giordano, Peggy C, Cernkovich, Stephen A, Rudolph, Jennifer L
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adolescents
Adults
Behavior Modification
Behaviour modification
Biographies
Cognition
Cognitive Processes
Control theory
Crime
Criminals
Delinquency
Epistemology
Female Offenders
Females
Followup Studies
Gender
Gender differences
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Offenders
Life histories
Life History
Males
Offenders
Social Control
Sociology
Spouses
Supervision
Symbolic Interactionism
Teenagers
Theory
Theory of constraints
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Zusammenfassung:This article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long-term follow-up of a sample of serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males. Neither marital attachment nor job stability, factors frequently associated with male desistance from crime, were strongly related to female or male desistance.
ISSN:0002-9602
1537-5390
DOI:10.1086/343191