RT Article
T1 Female Crime and Delinquency: A Kaleidoscope of Changes at the Intersection of Gender and Age
JF Women & criminal justice
VO 33
IS 4
SP 280
OP 301
A1 Carvalho, Maria João Leote de
A2 Duarte, Vera 1952-
A2 Gomes, Sílvia
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1853534242
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.
K1 intersectional approach
K1 Generation
K1 Gender
K1 femininities
K1 Female delinquency
K1 Female crime
DO 10.1080/08974454.2021.1985044