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WOMEN, RACE, AND CRIME
Author(s) -
YOUNG VERNETTA D.
Publication year - 1980
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.1745-9125.1980.tb01345.x
Subject(s) - race (biology) , criminology , juvenile delinquency , value (mathematics) , psychology , empirical research , white (mutation) , sociology , social psychology , gender studies , mathematics , statistics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
This article examines the interrelationships among women, race, and crime as presented by Adler. The empirical assertions concerning the pattern of crime for black and white males and females are examined using victim survey data. It was concluded that the explanations for racial differences in female crime and delinquency advanced by Adler have little value since the empirical differences they purport to explain are not supported by the data.