SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Shoplifting, Statics, Relate
Document Summary
It"s all in the denominator: female delinquency trends: statics goes against the media & popular discourse as female delinquency continues to be lower (small increase since 1940s, female delinquency still remains rare. Living in subculture consumption and a society that value material and wealth, is hard especially for girl of color (so color tends to shoplift items such as cosmetics: girl held on non-criminal charges (ex. Failure to comply, probation, curfew violation, etc. : failure to comply has become status offences (as girls aren"t charged from criminal behaviour but for breaching judicial orders) Legislation responsible for more girls being process through welfare programs (protection of sexually exploited children act, take girls and place them in welfare programs: more pronounced for aboriginal girls. The criminal girl and biology: early mythologized female as social throwback (lombroso-femme fatale) and though of female delinquent considered profoundly different then males and females as they were rare.
