NCJ Number
140054
Journal
Juvenile and Family Court Journal Volume: 43 Issue: 3 Dated: (1992) Pages: 33-40
Date Published
1992
Length
8 pages
Annotation
A sample of 348 adolescent girls referred to the Clark County (Nevada) Juvenile Court Services in 1985 and 1988 for violent crimes was compared to a group of adolescent boys charged with similar violent offenses.
Abstract
Nearly 90 percent of the females were charged with assault and battery. The findings showed that girls were more likely to have their charges dismissed than boys, but boys were more likely to be placed on formal supervision, sent to a training school, or receive some other type of supervision order. While half of the male offenders received no program or alternative, only 29.5 percent of the violent female offenders received some treatment alternative. Finally, girls were sent to counseling twice as often as boys. Two separate issues emerge from this study: the availability of programs structured to handle violent, adolescent female offenders and the appropriateness of referral placements and completion of these programs. 3 tables and 37 references