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Contributions of quantitative methods to the study of gender and crime, or bootstrapping our way into the theoretical thicket

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Researchers concur on the importance of gender to the study of crime but not on the particular methodological strategy that should be used when studying the gender-crime relationship. This paper examines the actual and potential contributions of quantitative methods for unpacking the gender-crime relationship. Three bodies of literature pertaining to the gender-crime relationship are examined: (i) offending, (ii) victimization, and (iii) criminal justice processing. The findings from this review indicate that while much knowledge about the gender-crime relationship has been uncovered with quantitative data, a commensurate amount of theoretical knowledge does not exist. The author concludes with substantive and methodological suggestions for furthering our understanding of the gendercrime relationship.

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This paper was prepared for the Plenary Session,Journal of Quantitative Criminology 10-year Anniversary, 1995 Annual Meeting of the american Society of Criminology, Boston, MA.

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Kruttschnitt, C. Contributions of quantitative methods to the study of gender and crime, or bootstrapping our way into the theoretical thicket. J Quant Criminol 12, 135–161 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354413

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