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Jacob, J. (2006). Male and Female Youth Crime in Canadian Communities: Assessing the Applicability of Social Disorganization Theory. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 48(1), 31–60.
In this article by Joanna Jacob aims to understand the various factors that lead female youths to commit crime by utilizing the social disorganization theory. By looking at various data from the 1996 Canadian Census and 1996 Canadian Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR), the author also wished to understand the extent to which social conditions can affect crimes perpetrated by females. Specifically, Jacob wants to discover whether there is a correlation between property crimes and violent crimes committed by males and females.
As a PhD student at the University of Waterloo, Jacob is well versed with the possibilities, as well as the limitations of her study. For one, she realizes that her chosen data sources do not share the same unit of analysis – the Census was collected at the community level, while the UCR was collected at the municipal level. She had to discover other resources in order to rationalize why she would compare these two data sources. Moreover, the UCR was not segregated by gender, so she had to make estimates which again, required additional research. It is apparent from this instance alone that Jacob excerted a lot of effort in ensuring the validity and repeatability of her research.
Jacob’s research shows that community characteristics related to social cohesiveness and social control are the highest predictors of crime commission among male youths while there is no clear predictor for female youth c...