Gender differences in the prevention of youth victimisation and offending

该项目旨在调查如何针对早期家庭、个人和学校因素，以防止弱势男女青年的犯罪和犯罪。该项目预计将产生以下方面的新知识：1）性别特有的犯罪和犯罪风险和保护因素; 2）以学校为基础的男女社会情感学习方案的有效性。预期成果包括推进女性犯罪的发展生命过程理论。这一项目将为决策者提供重大的社会和经济效益，帮助他们了解如何最有效地防止男女青年卷入刑事司法系统。

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.