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- Title
COMPARISON OF THE DELINQUENCIES OF BOYS AND GIRLS.
- Authors
Barker, Gordon H.; Adams, William T.
- Abstract
This article presents a comparative analysis of the delinquencies of boys and girls. Essential to effective planning for the treatment and control of children in correctional institutions is an understanding of delinquent behavior. One aspect of such behavior insufficiently understood, as there have been few major studies on the point, concerns the behavioral differences between delinquent boys and delinquent girls. As a result, institutional personnel have had only a limited awareness of the specific needs of each group and of the need to differentiate between them in planning. These differences suggest a number of important implications. Boys, on the one hand, generally commit law violations through the acquisition of other people's property. They are involved in burglary, theft, robbery, and car theft in an alarmingly high number. Girls, on the other hand, are rarely apprehended in such delinquent acts. They are most likely to be committed to the training school for incorrigibility, sexual offenses, or running away from home. In most cases, all three offenses are recorded against them on the court order which sends them to the training school. The other offenses for both boys and girls include arson, assault, vandalism, forgery, and narcotics.
- Subjects
JUVENILE delinquency -- Sex differences; WOMEN criminals; MALE juvenile offenders; CRIMINAL behavior
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology & Police Science, 1962, Vol 53, Issue 4, p470
- ISSN
0022-0205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1140578