The Girls Study Group: Charting the way to delinquency prevention for girls
By M. Zahn, Stephanie Hawkins, J. Chiancone, Ariel Whitworth. 2008
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However, the majority of juveniles arrested are male, which means that a good deal of research on juvenile delin quents has been performed on a mostly male population that does not account for girls’ and boys’ differences. Despite much research on the causes of boys’ delinquency, few studies have examined which girls become delinquent or why. Additionally, intervention and treat ment programs have been traditionally designed with boys in mind, and little is known about how well girls respond to these interventions. In the 1990s, a surge of girls’ arrests brought female juvenile crimes to the country’s attention. Girls’ rates of arrest for some crimes increased faster than boys’ rates of arrest. By 2004, girls accounted for 30 percent of all juvenile arrests, but delinquency experts did not know whether these trends reflected changes in girls’ behavior or changes in arrest patterns. The juvenile justice field was struggling to understand how best to respond to the needs of the girls entering the system.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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- Engendering the Evidence Base: A Critical Review of the Conceptual and Empirical Foundations of Gender-Responsive Interventions for Girls’ Delinquency (2013, background): “The GSG conducted an exhaustive review of the available research and, although acknowledging that the evidence base was limited by a lack of systematic attention to gender differences in large-scale longitudinal studies, as well as an over-reliance on small, non-representative samples of community p”