Toward a Structural Perspective on Gender Bias in the Juvenile Court
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2515969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William G Staples (University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 349-367 |
| Publication date | 1984-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1389108 |
| OpenAlex | W1974552871 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
A number of hypotheses about the effect of gender on the likelihood of incarceration in the juvenile court are tested. A purposive sample of 3911 delinquent (nonstatus) offending youths from 19 juristictions throughout the United States is analyzed employing the log-linear technique to control for the legal variables of severity of offense and prior record. The results indicate that females were less likely to be incarcerated than were males throughout the jurisdictions sampled. These and other findings lend support for a structural theory of gender bias in the juvenile court
Biology · Criminology · Family court · Gender bias · Juvenile · Juvenile court · Juvenile delinquency · Political science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology
Women
Judicial Paternalism and the Female Status Offender
Criminality and legal order
New Horizons in Criminology
The "Chivalrous" Treatment of the Female Offender in the Arms of the Criminal Justice System
Robustness in Regression Analysis
Women, crime, and the criminal justice system
Juvenile Court Dispositions
A Modified Multiple Regression Approach to the Analysis of Dichotomous Variables
Prior Offense Record as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Social Status and Sentences of Female Offenders
Estimable Functions in Log-Linear Models
An Empirical Typology of American Metropolitan Juvenile Courts
Race and Juvenile Justice Processing in Court and Police Agencies
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 1988 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |