Community Structure and Female Delinquency Rates: A Heuristic Discussion.

Figueira-McDonough, Josefina

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ERIC Number: EJ450996

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1992

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Community Structure and Female Delinquency Rates: A Heuristic Discussion.

Figueira-McDonough, Josefina

Youth and Society, v24 n1 p3-30 Sep 1992

Explores the community as an important context of both legitimate and illegitimate female behavior. Based on the principle of the centrality of the structures of gender relations for behavior of males and females, the original community model is expanded to include population characteristics relevant to that structure. (SLD)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Community Influence, Context Effect, Delinquency, Family Structure, Females, Heuristics, Incidence, Mobility, Models, Population Trends, Poverty, Sex Differences, Sex Role, Social Problems, Womens Studies

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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