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SEX DIFFERENCES IN DELINQUENCY
Author(s) -
JENSEN GARY J.,
EVE RAYMOND
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1976.tb00679.x
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , psychology , developmental psychology , multivariate analysis of variance , multivariate analysis , action (physics) , variance (accounting) , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , business , machine learning , computer science , accounting
This paper explores a much neglected issue in delinquency research—the relationship between sexual status and self‐reported delinquent action. Utilizing questionnaire data from a large sample of black and white adolescents, females were found to report less delinquent activity than males. However, sexual status explained very little variance in delinquent action and when controls for “intervening” sociological variables were implemented the impact of sexual status ws reduced even more. When introduced in a multivariate analysis together with measures of an adolescent's relationships with conventional and unconventional persons, values and institutions sexual status explained between 0.5% and 2% of the variance in delinquency within the two racial categories. Nevertheless, a small statistically significant relationship persisted and can be given a variety of sociological and nonspciological interpretations .