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Author: Simpson, Sally S.
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1. Simpson, Sally S.
Elis, Lori
Doing Gender: Sorting Out the Caste and Crime Condundrum
Criminology 33,1 (February 1995): 47-81.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1995.tb01171.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Delinquency/Gang Activity; Gender Differences; Mobility, Social; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Racial Studies; Self-Reporting; Social Environment; Social Roles; Welfare

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Explorations of the relationship between inequality and crime have examined the significance of class, gender, and racial oppression, but few theorists have considered how gender and racial oppression moderate etiological factors predictive of delinquency. Reviewing the literature in this area, several research hypotheses are generated regarding the formation of hegemonic masculinities and femininities within social institutions (work, family, peer groups, and schools), the ways in which "doing gender" must be modified by race, and the relationship among social structure, social action, and delinquency. In addition, self-report data (N = 4,578 juveniles) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979/80) are used to test the research hypotheses. The results indicate that gender and race do in fact modify independent-variable effects on property and violent delinquency. (Copyright 1995, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Bibliography Citation
Simpson, Sally S. and Lori Elis. "Doing Gender: Sorting Out the Caste and Crime Condundrum." Criminology 33,1 (February 1995): 47-81.
2. Simpson, Sally S.
Gibbs, Carole
Making Sense of Intersections
In: Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending. K. Heimer and C. Kruttschnitt, eds. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2005: pp. 269-302.
Also: http://www.nyupress.org/books/Gender_and_Crime-products_id-3826.html
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: New York University Press
Keyword(s): Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Ethnic Differences; Gender Differences; Modeling; Racial Differences; Self-Regulation/Self-Control

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Annotation: This study examined whether four general theories of delinquency--strain, low self-control, social learning, and control theories--explained juvenile offending better than an intersectional model that accounted for how gender, race, and class impact delinquency.

Overall, the findings suggest that the intersectional (class, gender, race) breakdown analysis provided a better fit to the data than the pooled sample across the four gender-neutral theories. Results of the quantitative analysis of each theory demonstrated significant differences in delinquency based on gender, race, and class, suggesting that the four so-called gender-neutral theories could account for how these factors might impact delinquency. However, the analysis also revealed factors that differed across these groups, suggesting limitations within the four general theories of delinquency. For example, having multiple sex partners was a better predictor of delinquency among the higher social classes than among the disenfranchised, but self-control theory could not explain why. Similarly, mother's social control was a stronger crime inhibitor for Blacks than for Whites, which was better explained by intersectional models than by control theory. The findings suggest that quantitative analysis is an effective tool for detecting intersectional differences resulting from gender, class, and race and can support feminist assertions that general theories of delinquency are less universal than their proponents claim. Data were drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) and concentrated on the responses provided by the 2,716 males and females aged 15 to 16 years who responded to wave 1 and wave 2 interviews. The analysis focused on delinquent acts committed between the first and second interview and included factors relevant to the four theories under examination. Control variables included age, urban area, and prior delinquency. Statistical analysis of the data included the calculation of chi-square estimates to test the overall model fit.

Bibliography Citation
Simpson, Sally S. and Carole Gibbs. "Making Sense of Intersections" In: Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending. K. Heimer and C. Kruttschnitt, eds. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2005: pp. 269-302.
3. Simpson, Sally S.
Gibbs, Carole
Making Sense of Intersections: Does Quantitative Analysis Enlighten or Obfuscate?
Presented: Nashville, TN, American Society of Criminology, 56th Annual Meeting, November 17-20, 2004
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Society of Criminology
Keyword(s): Crime; Gender Differences

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

See also , Citation # 5419: "Making Sense of Intersections" Simpson & Gibbs.
Bibliography Citation
Simpson, Sally S. and Carole Gibbs. "Making Sense of Intersections: Does Quantitative Analysis Enlighten or Obfuscate?." Presented: Nashville, TN, American Society of Criminology, 56th Annual Meeting, November 17-20, 2004.