The author explores some theoretical perspectives that, together, might aid development of
a heuristic understanding of female desistance from crime: opportunity; identity; scripts; self …

Abstract The Ohio Serious Offender study the authors recently completed focuses on a
contemporary sample of young female offenders, all of whom had committed serious and/or …

How can General Strain Theory (GST) explain why more males than females commit crime
(the sex gap) as well as male and female criminality? I propose that gender identity …