2). What has the typical young female delinquent done to get into trouble? What happens to her if she is arrested? These are questions that are rarely taken into consideration when the juvenile justice system isn’t critically looked at through a gender responsive lens. Usually when delinquency or youth crime is addressed there is an understanding that it is generally focused on male behavior. Going as far back as Albert Cohen, who in his influential book on gang delinquency in 1955 wrote “The delinquent is a rogue male”, crime is a male centered occurrence (Cohen, 1955). Still over ten years later, in one of the most referenced books on delinquency, Travis Hirschi reduced female involvement in delinquency to a footnote, which said that “in the analysis that follows, the ‘non-Negro’ becomes ‘white,’ and the girls disappear” (Hirschi,
2). What has the typical young female delinquent done to get into trouble? What happens to her if she is arrested? These are questions that are rarely taken into consideration when the juvenile justice system isn’t critically looked at through a gender responsive lens. Usually when delinquency or youth crime is addressed there is an understanding that it is generally focused on male behavior. Going as far back as Albert Cohen, who in his influential book on gang delinquency in 1955 wrote “The delinquent is a rogue male”, crime is a male centered occurrence (Cohen, 1955). Still over ten years later, in one of the most referenced books on delinquency, Travis Hirschi reduced female involvement in delinquency to a footnote, which said that “in the analysis that follows, the ‘non-Negro’ becomes ‘white,’ and the girls disappear” (Hirschi,