Gender differences in the prevention of youth victimisation and offending

该项目旨在调查如何在早期针对家庭、个人和学校因素，以防止易受伤害的男女青年受害和犯罪。该项目希望产生以下方面的新知识：1)针对性别的受害和犯罪风险和保护因素；(2)校本社会情绪学习课程对男女学生的有效性。预期的结果包括推进女性犯罪的发展生命历程理论。该项目应在如何最有效地防止男女青年参与刑事司法系统方面为决策者提供重大的社会和经济效益。

This project aims to investigate how early family, individual, and school factors can be targeted to prevent victimisation and offending among vulnerable male and female young people. This project expects to generate new knowledge on: 1) gender-specific risk and protective factors of victimisation and offending; and, 2) the effectiveness of school-based social-emotional learning programs for males and females. Expected outcomes include advancing developmental life-course theories for female offending. This project should provide significant social and economic benefits for policymakers on how to most effectively prevent male and female young people’s involvement with the criminal justice system.