Looking at girls who find their way into juvenile court populations, it is apparent that status offenses continue to play an important role in the character of girls" official delinquency. ... It appears that girls charged with these non-criminal status offenses have been and continue to be significantly "over-represented in court population." ...
To preserve validity and protect their study against the dangers of self-report surveys, the researchers used methods to double-check responses. ... " The subjects who participated in the self-administered questionnaire were selected from students in mostly entry-level courses because these courses were open to all majors and most accurately represented the entire population of the university. ... Random sampling is most often used while collecting subjects for an experiment because it is the best way to accurately gather representation from the entire population. ...
Social Control Theories take a sort of opposite approach from other theories in criminology. They start by asking why most people do not commit crimes rather then why they do commit them. They focus on restraining or controlling factors that are broken or missing inside the personalities of criminal...
