Discuss Hagan's power-control theory in terms of the families identified and their relationship to female delinquency
What will be an ideal response?
Power-control theory suggests that class influences delinquency by controlling the quality of family life.
In paternalistic families, fathers assume the role of breadwinner and mothers have menial jobs or remain at home. Mothers are expected to control the behavior of their daughters while granting greater freedom to sons. The parent–daughter relationship can be viewed as a preparation for the "cult of domesticity," which makes daughters' involvement in delinquency unlikely. Hence, males exhibit a higher degree of delinquent behavior than their sisters.
In egalitarian families—in which the husband and wife share similar positions of power at home and in the workplace (or in households with absent fathers)—daughters gain a kind of freedom that reflects reduced parental control. These families produce daughters whose law-violating behaviors mirror those of their brothers.
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