NCJ Number
131493
Date Published
1990
Length
122 pages
Annotation
A 1990 workshop attended by researchers from several institutions and a representative of NIJ focused on how issues related to sex and gender differences influence the development of antisocial and criminal behavior.
Abstract
The presentations and discussions focused on 10 questions pertaining to differences in the ways in which crime and delinquency are manifested in males and females, the mechanisms that account for the major gender differences in rates of predatory and violent crime, and the unique outcomes that should be examined in females when studying delinquency and crime in males. Other issues considered included when sex should be considered a dichotomous variable rather than an interval or continuous one, risks to males of being raised in female-dominated households, and differences in male and female responses to physical and sexual abuse and parental neglect. Other topics included gender differences in vulnerability to family stress, short-term and long-term consequences of exposure to family pathology, and gender differences in responses to preventive and therapeutic interventions to reduce antisocial behavior. Discussion summaries, individual papers, tables, and reference lists