Is it really so different for girls? Challenging misconceptions about young offenders and aggression

Abstract

Despite a tendency by criminologists and practitioners to deny female aggression and assume the inevitability of male aggression, this article, based on interviews with young men and women supervised by an inner London youth offending team, argues that both males and females experience and direct their aggression in similar ways. It contends that the finding of this study indicates that, among these young people, conceptions of appropriate gendered behaviour, and hence conceptions of masculinity and femininity, are continuously evolving.

Citation

Moore, M. (2007), "Is it really so different for girls? Challenging misconceptions about young offenders and aggression", Safer Communities, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 44-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200700024