Chapter 6: Canadian Girls and Crime in the Twenty-First Century Flashcards
Most common charge against girls?
Minor assault.
Administrative Offences
Offences against the administration of justice, that is, violations of court-ordered behavioural requirements, such as complying with a curfew, attending mandated programs, and following through on all manner of bail conditions and probation orders.
The most common sentence for girls, like boys, is…
Probation.
In presumptive offences, the onus is on the ___ to…
Crown, show why the youth (over 14) should be treated as an adult.
Gender Gap
Acknowledges the difference in the rates at which males and females do things. In the field of criminology, there exists a persistent and well-documented difference in the arrest rates for males and females, with males consistently committing significantly more crime than females.
Researchers are increasingly looking at female crime in the context of ___ instead of…
Females, compared to males.
Who considered female criminals were degenerate, unwomanly aberrations without maternal instinct?
Lombroso.
Biopsychosocial Model
An approach used to study the involvement of girls in the CJS that addresses biological, psychological, and social risk factors related to female criminality.
Gender Role Theories
Those explanations of delinquent and criminal behaviour that focus on the role that gender plays in the lives and behaviours of both females and males.
Power-Control Theory
Refers to Hagan et al.’s integrated (conflict and social control theories), feminist-informed explanation of the role of gender socialization on criminal distributions.
Intersectionality
Refers to a movement away from thinking categorically and toward thinking about the connections and crossroads between social facets. Intersectional thinking and theorizing recognizes the multiple, changing, and often overlapping dimensions, demographics, roles, and identities of criminals, victims, other individuals, and collectives.
Differential Intervention
Takes into account that people do not come in one-size-fits-all packages and therefore refrains from applying the same approach to each person involved in a class, program, or other form of group-based change process.
Differential Treatment
An approach to treatment that takes individual differences fully into account. Treatment is individually designed and flexible enough to allow for variation as the need emerges.
Compensatory Intervention
An intervention designed to make up for something that is absent, especially in the learning and social environment of young people.
