Gender and Status Offending: Judicial Paternalism in Juvenile Justice Processing

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dc.contributor.authorAndrew L. Spivak
dc.contributor.authorBrooke M. Wagner
dc.contributor.authorJennifer M. Whitmer
dc.contributor.authorCourtney L. Charish
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-14T19:53:51Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T15:34:59Z
dc.date.available2016-01-14T19:53:51Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T15:34:59Z
dc.date.issued2014-07-01
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the relationship between gender and juvenile justice processing outcomes for status offenders. The feminist criminological concept of judicial paternalism suggests that official justice systems, as gendered institutions with traditional patriarchal norms, will treat delinquent girls differently than delinquent boys. This paternalistic effect should be especially prevalent for status offenses, which are used to enforce institutional (parental, school, civic, parochial) authority. Using 1999-2001 juvenile processing data for 3,329 status offense referrals to the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs (N = 3,329) and controlling for age, race, prior history, type of status offense, and measures of social class and urban environment, our results indicate that (a) girls outnumber boys among status offenders, (b) girls are more likely than boys to have their petitions filed for review, (c) girls are less likely than boys to be adjudicated guilty, and (d) girls are just as likely as boys to receive an incarcerated custody sentence as opposed to probation. We argue that these results illustrate the manifestation of the juvenile justice system as a gendered institution in which the adjudication of status offenders reflects judicial paternalism.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoteshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelinesen_US
dc.identifier.citationSpivak, A. L., Wagner, B. M., Whitmer, J. M., & Charish, C. L. (2014). Gender and Status Offending: Judicial Paternalism in Juvenile Justice Processing. Feminist Criminology, 9(3), 224-248. doi: 10.1177/1557085114531318en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1557085114531318en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/25488
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherFeminist Criminology
dc.rights.requestablefalseen_US
dc.subjectfemale delinquencyen_US
dc.subjectjuvenile delinquencyen_US
dc.subjectjuvenile justiceen_US
dc.subjectcourtsen_US
dc.subjectjudgesen_US
dc.titleGender and Status Offending: Judicial Paternalism in Juvenile Justice Processingen_US
dc.typeResearch Articleen_US

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