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1 results foundAuthor: Smith, David Title: Gender and Youth Offending Summary: There is a substantial difference between boys and girls in levels of serious delinquency, but a relatively small difference in levels of broad delinquency, including trivial as well as serious incidents. Among young people included in the Edinburgh Study, delinquency increased sharply through sweeps 1 to 3 (age 12 to 14) but then started to decline. The increase was greater among girls than among boys, so that the gender gap in offending was smallest around the age of 14, and then began to increase again. Girls are involved in certain specific forms of delinquency—theft from home, writing graffiti, and truancy—more often than boys. Certain specific forms of delinquency—carrying a weapon, housebreaking, robbery, theft from cars, cruelty to animals—are much more common among boys than girls. The explanations for delinquency involve many different factors in at least six different domains of explanation. For the most part the explanatory model for broad delinquency is much the same among boys and girls. The explanatory factors captured by the Edin-burgh Study explain all of the difference in broad delinquency between boys and girls at the age of 15. The high rates of broad delinquency among boys compared with girls are largely ex-plained by situational opportunities and peer influence, higher rates of crime victimiza-tion, and weakened tutelage and moral beliefs. By contrast, boys remain much more likely to be involved in serious delinquency at the age of 15, even after taking account of 20 explanatory variables captured by the Edin-burgh Study. This finding suggests that the difference in serious delinquency between boys and girls is caused by a factor not measured in the study. In spite of some broad similarities, there are substantial differences between the models needed to explain serious delinquency in boys and girls. The findings are consistent with the theory that broad delinquency tends to be limited to adolescence, whereas serious offending is more likely to persist throughout the life course, and to be caused by deep-seated neuropsychological deficits, which are more common in boys than girls. Details: Ediburgh, Scotland: Centre for Law and Society, The University of Edinburgh, 2004. 24p. Source: The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, Report Number 2: Internet Resource: Accessed July 18, 2012 at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/esytc/findings/digest2.pdf Year: 2004 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/esytc/findings/digest2.pdf Shelf Number: 102905 Keywords: Demographic Trends (Scotland)Gender (Scotland)Juvenile Offenders (Scotland) |