The Girls Study Group: Charting the way to delinquency prevention for girls
The Girls Study Group: Charting the way to delinquency prevention for girls
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女孩研究小组：制定预防女孩犯罪的方法
DOI：
10.1037/e530862008-001
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
7.3
通讯作者：
Ariel Whitworth
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作者：
M. Zahn;Stephanie Hawkins;J. Chiancone;Ariel Whitworth
然而，大多数被捕的青少年是男性，这意味着大量关于青少年犯罪率的研究是在大多数男性人口中进行的，没有考虑到女孩和男孩的差异。尽管对男孩犯罪的原因进行了大量研究，但很少有研究探讨哪些女孩会犯罪或为什么会犯罪。此外，传统上，干预和治疗方案的设计考虑到男孩，很少有人知道女孩如何应对这些干预措施。1990年代，女孩被捕人数激增，使少女犯罪引起了该国的注意。女孩因某些犯罪而被捕的比率比男孩的被捕比率上升得更快。到2004年，女孩占所有青少年逮捕的30%，但犯罪专家不知道这些趋势是否反映了女孩行为的变化或逮捕模式的变化。少年司法领域正在努力了解如何最好地满足进入司法系统的女孩的需要。
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.