SOC310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Delinquency, White-Collar Crime
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Wider cultural values and society- what it means when girls act differently outside of the social norm (gender norms) **when females commit crime, they violate law but also socio-cultural scripts. Girls who defy gender norms by being naughty viewed more negatively than boys who engage in violence: tendency to view boy"s law-breaking as part of growing up boys just being boys . Media coverage of girls" violence represented trend toward aggressive women and girls- women fastest growing prison population worldwide; increased criminalization of women and girls, especially the poor and racial minorities. Sensationalized events give impression that girls are more involved in crime and also increasingly violent. Nasty girl phenomenon (barron and lacombe)- anxiety over girl violence. Media discourse and popular consciousness fails to contextualize girls" criminality. Girls commit one fifth to one quarter of all youth crime; adolescent males responsible for 75-80% of it.
