| The period in which young people move from childhood to adulthood is a critical one in their development and often a criminogenic one. In 1992 a Spanish representative sample of 2,100 youths aged 14 to 21 responded to the Questionnaire for the International Study on Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD). The findings show that rates of participation and incidence varies with gender with males more actively engaged in delinquency and antisocial behavior compared to females. The Spanish results also indicate that males and females differ on other social variables which usually correlate with delinquency such as parental supervision or school-related factors. This paper will look at gender socialization and delinquency comparing the Spanish data to two other European but non-Mediterranean samples from the same ISRD: England and Wales and the Netherlands. |
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