GENDER, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY*

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2003.tb01005.x
• Publication Date: 2006-03-07T23:13:14Z
• Authors: CHRISTOPHER W. MU...; RICHARD WRIGHT
• Keywords: 5. Gender equality; 05 social sciences; 0509 other social sciences; 16. Peace & justice

Criminological researchers have devoted substantial attention to the nature and dynamics of residential burglary, but role played by gender in shaping this offense remains largely unexplored. Feminist ethnographers documented fact that streetlife is highly gendered, typically serves marginalize women's participation criminal networks activities. Therefore, it appears likely burglary—a prototypically social requires good network connections—will be strongly influenced dynamics. In study, we analyze in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 18 female 36 male active burglars examine ways which structures access to, in, potential desistance from, burglary. doing so, aim provide an insider's view how stereotypes are expressed, reinforced, exploited within networks, these shape lived experience men women engaged