ABSTRACT
The preceding chapters have addressed both the theoretical issues concerned with crime and the community and the ethnographic material relating to the attitudes and patterns of offending among the adult generation. This discussion has focused entirely on men. Although women have often received scant attention from observers of workingclass culture they in fact play a crucial role in the transmission of values from one generation to the next. This chapter therefore focuses on the women in the Grafton Arms, whose biographies highlight important gender differences in both adolescent and adult experience.
