This
study replicates Hagan 1985’s influential study on the relationship among
gender, deviant behavior, and class structure. Using data collected by
Taiwan Education Panel Survey of students aged from 11-17 in Taiwan, our
analysis shows partial support of Hagan’s power-control theory: when
consider together, gender has the most significant effect while neither
parents’ socio-economic status nor their class position have any
significant effect on child’s misbehavior. But when examines the relationship
between gender and deviant behavior from a class structure perspective,
the analysis indicates a gradual, if modest, decrease of gender difference
on deviant behavior as we move down to power ladder of class structure as
predicted by power-control theory.