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Stephen Norland is Assistant Professor of Sociology at rhe University of Tenneswee. He is engaged in research on the relationships between gender roles and selj-reported delinquenry.
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GENDER ROLES AND FEMALE CRIMINALITY Some Critical Comments
Article first published online: 7 MAR 2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1977.tb00050.x
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NORLand, S. and SHOVER, N. (1977), GENDER ROLES AND FEMALE CRIMINALITY Some Critical Comments. Criminology, 15: 87–104. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1977.tb00050.x
Neal Shover is Associate Projessor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. His current interests are corporate and organizational crime; he is at work on a hook tentatively titled A Sociology of the Correctional Industry.
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Abstract
This paper investigates the recent claim that women are becoming increasingly involved in aggressive or serious criminal activities. On the basis of an a priori classification of aggressive crimes, a review of three different types of data reveals no unambiguous pattern of change in women's criminality. Several theoretical problems which hove inhibited the systematic development of the relationships between gender roles and criminality are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the lack of conceptual precision that characterizes the use of the terms gender and aggressive crime.