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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Female Offending"”.
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The dynamics of female offending: case studies in Scotland.
This research examines female offending in Scotland, and assesses our current understanding of its nature and causes. It acknowledges the importance of work carried out in the area of female criminality in the last twenty years, but stresses that our knowledge of the subject is still limited in …
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Trajectories and Transitions: Exploration of Gender Similarities and Differences in Offending
… analysis to model and compare patterns of offending over time for males and females by: (1) identifying qualitative dimensions of offending; (2) modeling how patterns of offending change over time; and (3) exploring factors related to patterns of offending. This is a secondary analysis of …
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"Code of the Hallway": Examining the Contextual Effects of School Subculture on Physical Violence, Sexual Offending, and Nonviolent Delinquency
… The analysis supports that for some types of offending school-level subculture is significant and that the "code of the hallway" does influence out-of-school behavior for some types of offending. Also, school-level subculture is more important in explaining male offending compared to female …
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Intimate Partners in Crime: Utilizing Life Course to Examine Female Criminality
… regards to how ‘turning points’ operate within female offenders. As such, this research fills those gaps by re-conceptualizing relationship typologies and focusing on the similarities between marriage and relationships. Two research questions are explored: If marriage is a turning point for …
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The developmental trajectory of delinquency among adolescent females
… related to crime focuses on males and studies offending behaviors from childhood to adulthood (Farrington, 2010). Only very few studies focus on developmental trajectories of female delinquency during adolescence. Given that increasing numbers of girls appear in the juvenile justice system …