Disruptive and delinquent girls are not well served by the mental health and juvenile justice
systems. Interventions that have been developed for the behavior problems of boys are …

Scholarship in criminology over the last few decades has often left little room for research
and theory on how female offenders are perceived and handled in the criminal justice …

In this important new work, two respected criminologists challenge the characterization of
the new'bad girl'arguing that it is only a new attempt to punish girls who are not the …

In this article, we review criminological perspectives of girls' violence. To do this, wc first look
at the 20th-century tendency to view violent girls as being the same as violent boys or as …

This ar ti cle ex am ines the prev a lence of fe male ju venue delinquency and reviews the
literature from a sociological and practiceperspective. Specifically, we focus attention on …

Despite the fact that girls account for one of four arrests of juveniles, discussions of
delinquency and juvenile justice generally ignore young women and their problems. A …

Mass incarceration has long characterized the landscape of adult criminal justice in the
United States. Unlike other nations of the developed world that have sought to decrease …

Traces the progress toward resolving critical juvenile justice and delinquency issues, and to
provide cutting-edge intervention strategies to effectively rehabilitate juvenile offenders and …

This stupid experiment of organizing work and failing to organize play has, of course,
brought about a fine revenge. The love of pleasure will not be denied, and when it has …

Executive Summary Each year, more than 2,000 youthful offenders are released from the
California Youth Authority (CYA). The challenge for the State of California is to preserve …