TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1977//
TI  - Sex and Theories of Deviance: Toward a Functional Theory of Deviant Type-Scripts
JO  - American sociological review
A1  - Harris, Anthony R.
SP  - 3
EP  - 16
VL  - 42
IS  - 1
N2  - Given available evidence on official and hidden criminality, conceptual neglect of the sex variable, not simply of women, is seen as having dire consequences for most contemporary criminal deviance paradigms and, consequently, as providing the major failure of deviance theorizing in this century. The outlines of a new paradigm are introduced, "the functional theory of deviant type-scripts," which suggest that everyday expectancies for deviance--which link types of actors to types of roles and which serve dominant social interests--at once account for our professional failure to include the sex variable in theories of criminal deviance and, more importantly, provide the single strongest theoretical account of the very striking cross-cultural difference in male and female criminality. (Abstract Adapted from Source: American Sociological Review, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by the American Sociological Association)  Gender Differences Adult Crime Adult Deviance Adult Female Adult Male Adult Offender Male Offender Male Crime Female Crime Female Offender 07-02<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0003-1224
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -