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Chapter Summary
Female Delinquency
GENDER AND THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

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Chapter Summary
Female Delinquency
Chapter 7 discusses gender, sex, the maturation process of girls, and theories of female delinquency. GIRLS TO WOMEN: A DEVELOPMENTAL VIEW
Sex is the biological designation of "male" or "female." Gender refers to the characteristics attributed to and accorded to males and females by their societies and cultures on the basis of sex. The popular view of juvenile delinquency has been formed by looking at the antisocial behavior of males. The study of female crime has not been in the mainstream because male offenders so greatly outnumber female offenders. The greatest physical differences between girls and boys don't appear until adolescence. Girls undergo the same issues during adolescence that boys do, but in different ways and at different times. THE EXTENT AND NATURE OF FEMALE DELINQUENCY
The involvement of females with crime and the juvenile justice system is very different than that of males. Girls commit fewer offenses, they commit less serious offenses, they are treated differently by justice officials, and they are typically easier to rehabilitate.