Abstract
Using a network of institutions and both a qualitative and quantitative approach: a high school, asecondary school, a primary school and two additional secondary schools, the study focuses on school transgression through the filter of the pupils and educational staffs’ gender. Previous works assert that these transgressions are different, and thus that the enforcement of the punishment system according to the pupils’ gender is too.Our work attempts to highlight the various factors participating in the gender-based mechanism of school transgression. It is built on the identity construction of the transgression, its manifestations in school, the justifications given by individuals regarding a transgression and the repercussions of the latter. This allows the perpetuation of a vicious circle that sees girls as model pupils, adapted to the standards of the education system, while boys are seen as being naturally transgressive individuals. Built and strengthened by results and literary reviews, these factors allow us to anticipate a model explaining and justifying an unchanging, ceaseless, and perpetual mechanism, but also a model that discriminates between girl and boy pupils who break laws, rules and standards within schools.