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DOING GENDER: SORTING OUT THE CASTE AND CRIME CONUNDRUM *
Author(s) -
SIMPSON SALLY S.,
ELIS LORI
Publication year - 1995
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.1745-9125.1995.tb01171.x
Subject(s) - caste , juvenile delinquency , oppression , privilege (computing) , race (biology) , social psychology , psychology , criminology , sociology , gender studies , political science , politics , law
Theories that examine the relationship between inequality and crime typically privilege one system of stratification over others. In criminology, the system most often assumed to be primary is social class, but other approaches may emphasize gender or racial oppression to account for observed differences in offending patterns. Few, however, systematically link gender and race oppression as moderating etiological variables in the study of crime. From the theoretical and empirical literature on this subject, we discuss (1) how “hegemonic” masculinities and femininities are framed within social institutions such as work, the family, peer group, and schools; (2) how “doing gender” within these sites is modified by race; and (3) anticipated relationships among social structure, social action, and delinquency. Self‐report data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are used to test research hypotheses. Chow interaction tests and comparisons of slope coefficients reveal that gender and race modify independent‐variable effects on property and violent delinquency.