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Young Women and Delinquency |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE |
| Author: Meda Chesney-Lind |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,274 Words, 7,638 Characters |
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When people talk about the problem of delinquency, they are generally thinking about delinquent boys. Yet, about a quarter of the young people arrested for juvenile offenses every year in the United States are girls. Who is the typical female delinquent? What causes her to get into trouble? What happens to her if she is caught? Until recently, few people cold supply answers to these questions. Now that situation is changing. Interest in women's issues has meant that the long-neglected problems of girls in trouble are finally receiving attention.
Contemporary work on female delinquency suggests that while there are many similarities between male and female delinquency, there are also important differences. First, and most importantly, girls tend to the arrested for offenses th...
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...upply in most states, despite the large numbers of girls that cold benefit from their services. Stereotypes of youth in trouble as all-male have resulted in the neglect of girls' very real problems as well, contributing, in many cases, to their tendencies toward criminal behavior. Attention to their situation is long overdue and will make a major contribution to solving female delinquency. vbcrlf
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