SOCC30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Assault, Relational Aggression
Document Summary
Article: ages 12-17 of violent crime with over 1500 males and 26 females. Breaking and entering: males 182 and females indefinite. Non sexual assault: males 609 and females 200. Sexual assault: males 120 and females 0. Drug offences: males 795 and females 73. Young females are involved in considerably less criminal activities than young males. Why has less attention been paid to female than male crime and delinquency: female deviance assumed to be rare (and have a sexual focus) Additional notes: all of the major sociological theories of crime would be based upon male behaviour and male lifestyles. Females behaviour is probably less problematic than male behaviour. In addition to being understudied as a crime problem, when sociologists and criminologists did get around to paying attention to the illicit behaviour or girls and women, their gaze had a sexual focus. If female offenders were studied at all, it was because of their involvement in things like prostitution (sex trade).