title: Ideological delinquency: gender differences among Israeli youth during the withdrawal from the Gaza strip.
abstract: This study aims to examine the factors that channel boys and girls toward committing illegal activity. The measures examined include social control factors (belief, commitment, attachment, and involvement) and ideological religious worldviews. The study examines 262 Israeli adolescents who have taken part in illegal and legal activities during the resistance to the Gaza evacuation. Findings suggest that illegal activity levels are greater among boys than girls, whereas ideological obligation and commitment are greater among girls than boys. Involvement with friends positively predicts ideological obligation among boys, which in turn is related to increased likelihood of illegal activity. Among girls, lower commitment and lower belief as well as greater ideological obligation are predictive of illegal activity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel. mally@bezeqint.net
authors.forename: Mally
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shechory
authors.forename: Avital
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laufer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002960:Civil Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel / Q000208:ethnology; D007585:Jews / Q000523:psychology*; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008877:Middle East; D009042:Motivation; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012945:Social Values