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Research Bulletin (01 2002, 1 November)
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- Understanding and Addressing Female Delinquency in Illinois (20070905184934_ResBdelinqgirls.pdf)
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This report, Understanding and Addressing Female Delinquency in Illinois, presents what information is known about female juvenile offenders in Illinois, common characteristics of female delinquents, and promising approaches to gender-responsive programming for girls.
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- Information management and resources: Information resources: Government statistics: Crime statistics
- Information management and resources: Information resources: Government statistics: Demographic statistics
- Law enforcement and the courts: Crime: Crime statistics
- Law enforcement and the courts: Juvenile justice and rehabilitation
- State government: State audits and studies
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.Understanding and addressingfemale delinquency in Illinois By Megan AlderdenICJIA Research AnalystR ecently, practitioners, policymakers and researchers have taken notice of the sizable increase in the number of female delinquents entering the juvenile justice system. However, because girls account for small percentage of juvenile arrests-\-27 percent of all juvenile arrests nationwide in 1999 (Snyder, 2000)-\- and because their offenses are often considered less serious than those committed by boys, female delinquents are often overlooked. In fact, researchers have found that most juvenile justice systems in the United States are ill-equipped to deal with delinquent girls (Chesney-Lind, 2001); and the limited number of programs that serve female delinquents are often based on the needs and developmental patterns of boys and/or the criminological theories that explain male delinquency (Miller and Trapani, 1995). Before programming can be developed for female juvenile offenders, however
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