Not So Nice

Girls' Delinquency Issues

Buch | Hardcover

157 Seiten

2010
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
9781608762682 (ISBN)

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Girls' delinquency has attracted the attention of federal, state, and local policymakers for more than a decade as girls have increasingly become involved in the juvenile justice system. This book examines the developmental sequences of girls' delinquent behaviour, as well as the factors that protect girls against delinquency.

Girls' delinquency has attracted the attention of federal, state, and local policymakers for more than a decade as girls have increasingly become involved in the juvenile justice system. For girls, the key risk factors for delinquency and incarceration are family dysfunction, trauma and sexual abuse, mental health and substance abuse problems, high-risk sexual behaviours, school problems and affiliation with deviant peers. The authors of this book examine the developmental sequences of girls' delinquent behaviour, as well as the factors that protect girls against delinquency. In addition, issues such as patterns of offending among adolescents are explored and how they differ for girls and boys. The causes and correlates of girls' delinquency are discussed as well. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

Preface; The Girls Study Group -- Charting the Way to Delinquency Prevention for Girls; The Female Juvenile Offender in Hawaii; Juvenile Justice: Technical Assistance and Better Defined Evaluation Plans Will Help to Improve Girls' Delinquency Programs; Resilient Girls -- Factor that Protect Against Delinquency; Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends & Context; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2010
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	230 x 155 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-13	9781608762682 / 9781608762682
Zustand	Neuware