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Sex Composition And Female Offending: Under The Impact Of The One-Child Policy, Ting Wang
Sex Composition And Female Offending: Under The Impact Of The One-Child Policy, Ting Wang
Theses and Dissertations--Sociology
This dissertation explores the mechanisms of the increasing female crime in China from the effect of the one-child policy, which is treated herein as a natural experiment. Data reveal that the women’s share of documented crime dramatically increased after the mid-1990s when the first one-child generation reached the age of legal responsibility. This change reflects the interplay of the behavioral change and the net-widening effect.
The increasing criminality of the one-child generation is attributable to the gap between the equal gender expectations of the individual, which has been reshaped by the unique socialization practices under the influence of the policy, …