Sociology 2267A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Squeegee Man, Squeegee, Paraphilia
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Squeegee kids: criminals or entrepreneurs: o"grady et al (1998): Inability to get a regular job: ontario safe streets act made it a criminal act. Same squeegee kids were in worse conditions that before. 99% of panhandling tickets never paid back. Lombroso"s biological facts: biology rendered women more passive and nurturing so less likely to engage in crime, when engage in crime, they have stepped outside of their biological order. Thomas and the unadjusted girl (1928): female delinquency as a sexual problem cause by economic pressures, sold their bodies in order to buy goods, very sel sh explanation. Post-wwii studies: female delinquency as biological and psychological pathology. Early subcultural theories: individual problem rather than collective, girls don"t chase the same goals as boys therefore their adaptation to society is di erent. When see view boys we see them as a threat to public order. When we see girls we see them as a sexual deviation.