Abstract
ABSTRACTChina has a massive scarcity of marriageable women; but simultaneously, its rate of female crime has dramatically increased in recent decades, even outpacing the male counterpart. These two seemingly controversial phenomena, which have been ignored or unexpected previously, are connected and explained by this study from a critical perspective. By integrating three theories, it addresses how and when the one-child policy and economic development have influenced the time series of female offending. This study argues that the policy has structurally altered the family socialization of gender and equalized the one-child generations’ life goals between genders but retained inequality in the means to life goals, which has created specific strain for women that may have resulted in a correspondingly rising female crime rate. Based on a quasi-experiment, this study provides a new explanation for the increase in female crime.
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