Explain the differences between male and female delinquency

What will be an ideal response?


The answer should include the following points:
• Male careers tend to begin earlier and to extend longer into the adult years.
• Female members are more likely than male members to leave the gang if they have a child.
• Conventional life patterns draw both males and females away from gangs and delinquency but do so more quickly and completely for females.
• Quality marriages led women to desist from crime, with some variation depending on the class and race of the women being studied.
• The desistance process was quite different for inner-city women of color.

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