277). There is a considerably amount of controversy over the adequacy of current theories about female deviance. A girls aggression is often subject to censure in the form of either condemnation or a warning to behave like a lady, which ultimately produce feelings of guilt and anxiety about aggression among females than males (Heimer and DeCoster, 1999,p.283). Most likely delinquent females engage in more survival strategies, and they leave home or runaway. The females who depart from traditional "lady like" actions by engaging in violence are labeled more deviant than aggressive males (Heimer and DeCoster, 1999, p.283). But on the other hand girls who accept the traditional gender definition role given by society should be unlikely to engage in physical aggression and violence (Rhodes and Fischer, 1993). For the girls who believe in the society norms, violent delinquency would be viewed as double deviant, and would be a violation of law as well as their beliefs. Some research showed that the females or girls who believed in this (meaning society norm) were less likely to be involved in delinquency (Heimer and DeCoster, 1999, p.283).
The family and peers of both genders of the juvenile can help lead the juvenile or child to a life of delinquency. If the family atmosphere is not in good standards it could help lead to delinquency. Girls are more likely to a have stronger emotional bond with the family than boys do, so that helps in the family aspect (Heimer and DeCoster, 1999, p.284). Heimer and DeCoster (1999) also state that the girls also experience a higher level of familial control than do boys. Now when it comes to boys, mothers expect their sons more than their daughters, to conform to external standards, hold more punitive orientation towards raising sons than daughters, and they also discourage the expression of affect more in sons than in daughters (Heimer and DeCoster, 1999, p.
