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WOMEN, RACE, AND CRIME *
Author(s) -
HILL GARY D.,
CRAWFORD ELIZABETH M.
Publication year - 1990
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.1745-9125.1990.tb01340.x
Subject(s) - race (biology) , white (mutation) , psychology , black male , black women , black female , social psychology , criminology , criminal behavior , developmental psychology , sociology , gender studies , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
This paper explores the capacity of alternative theoretical perspectives to explain the self‐reported criminality of black and white young adult females. When criminal involvement is regressed on the theory operation‐alizations separately by race, a key difference emerges: For white women, significant effects are clustered in the social‐psychological theory groups (bonding, attitudes, and maturation), but for the black women the social‐psychological variables have only scattered and inconsistent eflects. Instead, for black women structural indicators emerge as the important predictors of criminal involvement.