Abstract
Youth crime is a perennial issue that pervades the media and the public consciousness, and is inextricably linked to concerns about delinquent, misbehaving and disorderly youth. This chapter will consider how and when delinquency might be constructed and how this might be a static or changing phenomenon—local and global. It will explore how explanations and accounts of delinquent behaviour might change over time, between cultures or within different groups within society. It will also discuss how theoretical explanations of delinquency enable us to critique the concept in and of itself and to think about what is added by a global as well as a local, individual country perspective.
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Although this is also true in the human sciences with profound health impacts, for example, in the understanding of heart attacks and strokes, where many samples were purely male.
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As we have discussed, there are profound restrictions on girls’ and women’s equal rights in some parts of the world, and particular restrictions exist within many societies. However, UN agreements have enshrined equality for girls and women globally, even if this is not always realised in practice.
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Arnull, E., Fox, D. (2016). Theoretical Perspectives: Delinquency. In: Arnull, E., Fox, D. (eds) Cultural Perspectives on Youth Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43397-8_2
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