TY - JOUR
T1 - Female Crime and Delinquency
T2 - A Kaleidoscope of Changes at the Intersection of Gender and Age
AU - Leote de Carvalho, Maria Joao
AU - Duarte, Vera
AU - Gomes, Silvia
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UIDP/04647/2020
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SFRH/BPD/102758/2014
SFRH/BD/35752/2007
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article discusses the role that gender and age play in female crime and delinquency in Portugal, drawing on the voices of female offenders across different generations—childhood, youth, and adulthood. Based on the analysis of 49 interviews with female offenders, it explores the ways in which these girls and women construct and account for their own criminal behavior. The results reveal a kaleidoscope of changes cutting across generational groups, punctuated by increasing involvement of younger groups in offending as a form of emancipation. Young and older female offenders show different patterns of offending, which reflect multiple and ambivalent old and new forms of femininity. Girls’ and women’s paths both to and in offending have their own idiosyncrasies. They also reflect the way gender is being constantly reconfigured and reconstructed through time, and in different social and institutional contexts.
AB - This article discusses the role that gender and age play in female crime and delinquency in Portugal, drawing on the voices of female offenders across different generations—childhood, youth, and adulthood. Based on the analysis of 49 interviews with female offenders, it explores the ways in which these girls and women construct and account for their own criminal behavior. The results reveal a kaleidoscope of changes cutting across generational groups, punctuated by increasing involvement of younger groups in offending as a form of emancipation. Young and older female offenders show different patterns of offending, which reflect multiple and ambivalent old and new forms of femininity. Girls’ and women’s paths both to and in offending have their own idiosyncrasies. They also reflect the way gender is being constantly reconfigured and reconstructed through time, and in different social and institutional contexts.
KW - Female crime
KW - Female delinquency
KW - Femininities
KW - Gender
KW - Generation
KW - Intersectional approach
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U2 - 10.1080/08974454.2021.1985044
DO - 10.1080/08974454.2021.1985044
M3 - Article
SN - 0897-4454
VL - 33
SP - 280
EP - 301
JO - Women & Criminal Justice
JF - Women & Criminal Justice
IS - 4
ER -