TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Gender, structural disadvantage, and urban crime: do macrosocial variables also explain female offending rates?
JO  - Criminology
A1  - Steffensmeier, Darrell J.
A1  - Haynie, Dana
SP  - 403
EP  - 438
VL  - 38
IS  - 2
N2  - Building on prior macrosocial-crime research that sought to explain either total crime rates or male rates, this study links female offending rates to structural characteristics of U.S. cities. Specifically, we go beyond previous research by: (1) gender disaggregating the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) index-crime rates (homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft) across U.S. cities; (2) focusing explicitly on the effects of structural disadvantage variables on the index-offending rates of females; and (3) comparing the effects of the structural variables on female rates with those for male rates. Alternative measures of structural disadvantage are used to provide more theoretically appropriate indicators, such as gender-specific poverty and joblessness, and controls are included for age structure and structural variables related to offending.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1384
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000.tb00895.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -