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Download full textCauffman, Elizabeth – Future of Children, 2008
Although boys engage in more delinquent and criminal acts than do girls, female delinquency is on the rise. In 1980, boys were four times as likely as girls to be arrested; today they are only twice as likely to be arrested. In this article, the author explores how the juvenile justice system is and should be responding to the adolescent female…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Females, Juvenile Justice, Criminals
